Aliciella hutchinsifolia

Desert pale aliciella, Desert Pale Aliciella

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Desert pale aliciella is a California native annual found in Great Basin and Mojave Desert regions in sandy or gravelly flats and dunes at elevations of 400 to 1,800 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces white to lavender flowers with a green-spotted throat, 7 to 14 millimeters long and generally featuring wavy-margined petals. Growing with branched stems 5 to 40 centimeters tall and densely covered in glandular hairs, it has a distinctively skunk-like odor. Its basal leaves are 2 to 8 centimeters long, pinnately divided with linear lobes wider than the leaf axis, while upper leaves are simple and linear. The plant produces numerous small fruits 3 to 6 millimeters long, which exceed the size of its calyx.

Habitat: Sandy or gravelly flats, slopes, dunes

Bloom period: Mar-May(Jun)

Elevation: 400-1800 m

Bioregions: GB, DMoj

California counties: Inyo, Mono, San Bernardino, Kern

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