Amsinckia tessellata var. gloriosa

Carrizo fiddleneck, Carrizo Fiddleneck

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Carrizo fiddleneck is a California native annual found in northern Coast Ranges, Tehachapi, southwestern San Joaquin Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, southern Coast Ranges, western Transverse Ranges, and western Mojave Desert in sandy or shaly soils at elevations of 50 to 1,950 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces orange flowers with dense brown-hairy calyxes, blossoms 12 to 16 millimeters long with a corolla limb 6 to 10 millimeters wide. Growing with slender branching stems that spread across the ground, it forms delicate, tangled clusters. Its leaves are narrow and lance-shaped, arranged alternately along the stem, typically covered in fine, bristly hairs. The fruit develops as small, tessellated nutlets characteristic of the fiddleneck genus.

Habitat: Sandy or shaly soils

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: 50-1950 m

Bioregions: NCoRI, Teh, sw SnJV, SnFrB, SCoR, WTR, w DMoj.

California counties: Kern, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, San Benito, Merced, Santa Barbara, Fresno, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Ventura, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Alameda, Contra Costa, Colusa, Siskiyou, San Mateo, Kings, Yolo, Riverside

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