Amsinckiopsis kingii

Great basin popcornflower, Great Basin Popcornflower

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Great basin popcornflower is a California native annual found in Great Basin regions in dry, open habitats at moderate elevations. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces delicate white flowers with yellow appendages in small rotated clusters. Growing with ascending to erect stems 20 to 40 centimeters tall, it has distinctive coarse, stiff spreading hairs and a reddish taproot. Its leaves are primarily alternate, linear to lance-shaped, with lower leaves dense and clustered while upper leaves become increasingly sparse. The fruit consists of four small nutlets with irregular tubercled ridges, each 2 to 3 millimeters long and slightly arched.

California counties: Riverside, Mono, Inyo, Lassen, Siskiyou

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