Apache Plume

Apache Plume
(Fallugia paradoxa)

A shrub, four or five feet tall, which grows in dry rocky places among pinyons and junipers. The white flowers have 5 petals, and are about an inch and a half across. They start blooming in May or June, and continue through the summer.

Each blossom has many pistils, and each pistil matures into a seed with a long feathery plume attached.

The bundle of plumes supposedly resembles a head-dress worn in some native American tribes.