Clarkia davyi

Davy's clarkia

Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native

Davy's clarkia is a California native annual found in northern coastal California, including the northern Coast Ranges, northern Coast Coast, and Santa Rosa Island, in coastal grasslands and bluffs at elevations below 100 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces delicate lavender-pink flowers shading to white or pale yellow, with fan-shaped petals 5 to 11 millimeters long. Growing with prostrate to decumbent stems less than 9 decimeters tall and sparsely puberulent, it has a delicate spreading form. Its leaves are nearly sessile with oblanceolate to elliptic blades 1 to 2.5 centimeters long, typically with an obtuse tip. The flower's distinctive bowl-shaped corolla and eight evenly sized stamens make this a charming coastal wildflower.

Habitat: Coastal grassland, bluffs

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: < 100 m

Bioregions: NCo, n CCo, n ChI (Santa Rosa Island).

California counties: Marin, Mendocino, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Humboldt, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, Del Norte

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