Clarkia dudleyana
Dudley's clarkia
Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native
Dudley's clarkia is a California native annual found in the central Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada foothills, Tehachapi, eastern South Coast, Transverse Ranges, and Peninsular Ranges in openings of woodland, chaparral, and yellow-pine forest at elevations below 1,500 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces lavender-pink flowers with white streaks and red flecks, forming bowl-shaped blossoms 10 to 30 millimeters wide with distinctive fan-shaped petals. Growing with erect stems up to 70 centimeters tall and covered in fine soft hairs, it has an upright, slender structure. Its leaves are narrowly lanceolate, 1.5 to 7 centimeters long with short petioles less than 1 centimeter, arranged alternately along the stem. The flower buds are particularly notable for their recurved tips and pendant positioning before blooming.
Habitat: Openings in woodland, chaparral, yellow-pine forest
Bloom period: May-Jul
Elevation: < 1500 m
Bioregions: SNF, c&s SNH, Teh, e SCo,TR, PR.
California counties: Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Tulare, Orange, Fresno, Mariposa, Madera, Tuolumne, Kern, Ventura, Sierra, Stanislaus, Nevada, Trinity, Inyo, Placer, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, San Diego
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.