Amsinckia douglasiana

Douglas's fiddleneck, Douglas' fiddleneck, Douglas' fiddleneck

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.2

Douglas's fiddleneck is a California native annual found in southern Coastal Ranges and western Transverse Ranges on unstable shaly sedimentary slopes at elevations of 150 to 1,600 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces yellow-orange flowers with five distinctive dark spots, 14 to 22 millimeters long with a limb 10 to 16 millimeters in diameter. Growing with slender stems branched in the upper half, it reaches heights typical of small annual herbs. Its leaves are occasionally narrow and spoon-shaped, with variable orientation along the stem. The fruit is a distinctive gray, dull, cobblestone-like structure measuring 3 to 5 millimeters long.

Habitat: Unstable shaly sedimentary slopes

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: (100)150-1600 m

Bioregions: SCoR, w WTR.

California counties: Fresno, Kern, Monterey, Ventura, Mariposa, Sutter, Solano, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Madera, Riverside, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Alameda, Tulare, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Kings, Mendocino, Napa, San Benito, San Diego, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Trinity, Merced, Lake, Amador, Calaveras, Stanislaus, Santa Cruz, Marin, Butte, Sacramento, Yolo, Placer

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