Clarkia cylindrica

Speckled clarkia

Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native

Speckled clarkia is a California native annual found in lowland regions in open grasslands and disturbed areas. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces distinctive bowl-shaped flowers with striking color variations - bright purple-red at the base, white in the middle, and lavender to pink-purple at the edges, often speckled with red-purple accents. Growing with erect stems up to 60 centimeters tall that are lightly hairy or smooth, it develops narrow linear to lance-shaped leaves. Its leaves are small, measuring 1 to 6 centimeters long, with very short petioles less than 5 millimeters. The fruit develops as a cylindrical pod 2 to 5 centimeters long with a short 3 to 5 millimeter beak.

California counties: Kern, Ventura, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Mariposa, Tulare, San Luis Obispo, Nevada, Tuolumne, San Benito, Butte, Fresno, Kings, San Mateo, Monterey, Madera, Calaveras, Placer, Riverside

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