Yerba Mansa
Anemopsis californica

Family: Lizard Tail (Saururacea)
AKA: Lizard's Tail, Yerba del Manso
Photo taken on: June 16, 2021
Location: CR 56A, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, NM
Life Zones: Plains
Habitat: Wet alkaline soils, wet meadows, stream sides

Grows to 12" high with waxy, mostly basal leaves which form a dense ground cover. Flower heads are a fragrant, showy, cone-shaped spike over 1" long surrounded by four to nine white to reddish petal-like bracts. The spike consists of about 100 densely packed greenish flowers which have a small white bract but no petals. In the fall, the whole plant turns brick-red in color.

Flora of North America reference.