[at-l] Flower ID

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 08:15 AM 10/3/2005 -0400, Daphne Gould wrote:
>Can anyone help me with identifying a flower? I couldn't find
>it in any flower book. I saw it along the Arizona Trail near
>Tucson. The photo I have is terrible, but it was the cutest
>little flower. It is about 1/2" tall. It has five petals, the top
>four are white and the bottom one is purple and lacy at the
>bottom (reminds me of the petal of an orchid - though this
>is no orchid). The weirdest part is that the stamens do not
>come out of the middle of the flower, but go up to the top and arc
>over the flower, like a fan.
>
>http://www.gouldhome.com/daphne/CanyonRanch/l050916_1130_img_2846.jpg
>
>Daphne aka Blue Sky

According to my Texas Wildflower book and your description the likely match 
is Forked Blue Curls (Trichostema dichotomum) 
<http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/mbierner/bio406d/images/pics/lam/trichostema_dichotomum.htm>