Clarkia tembloriensis

Temblor range clarkia

Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native

Temblor range clarkia is a California native annual found in California's central coastal regions in grassland and oak woodland habitats. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces lavender-pink flowers with diamond-shaped petals and distinctive purple spots, measuring one to two and a half centimeters across. Growing with erect stems up to 80 centimeters tall, it has glaucous, gray-green lanceolate leaves measuring two to seven centimeters long. Its leaves have short petioles zero to five millimeters long, with delicate lavender to red outer stamens contrasting against paler inner stamens. The plant develops elongated fruits one and a half to three centimeters long, with a width of approximately three millimeters.

California counties: Kern, Fresno, Alameda, San Benito, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Stanislaus, Kings, Santa Barbara, Monterey

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