Adelinia grandis

Adelinia

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Adelinia is a California native perennial herb found in northwestern California, the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco Bay Area, southern Coast Ranges, and Peninsular Ranges in chaparral and woodland habitats at elevations of 10 to 1,700 meters. Flowering from February to May, this plant produces blue flowers with white appendages and violet tube, approximately 8 to 12 millimeters long with lobes spreading to 10 to 15 millimeters in diameter. Growing with a single erect stem 30 to 90 centimeters tall that is glaucous and glabrous, it develops distinctive basal leaves 8 to 15 centimeters long and 3 to 10 centimeters wide, which are ovate to elliptic with a truncate or heart-shaped base. Its leaves are notably hairy on the underside while nearly glabrous on the upper surface, with a petiole 8 to 15 centimeters long. The fruit consists of four nutlets, each approximately 5 to 6 millimeters in diameter, with short barbed prickles and an ascending-spreading arrangement.

Habitat: Chaparral, woodland

Bloom period: Feb-May

Elevation: 10-1700 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR, SN, SnFrB, SCoR, PR

California counties: Humboldt, Mendocino, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa, Glenn, Fresno, Lake, Calaveras, Tulare, Tuolumne, Amador, Sonoma, San Luis Obispo, Napa, Trinity, Alameda, Placer, Kern, Butte, Marin, El Dorado, Siskiyou, Santa Cruz, Colusa, Monterey, Nevada, San Joaquin, Shasta, Tehama, Merced, Solano, Mariposa, Yolo, Del Norte, Los Angeles, Yuba, Sacramento

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.