Collomia heterophylla
Variable-leaf collomia, Variable-Leaf Collomia
Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native
Variable-leaf collomia is a California native annual found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, Cascade Ranges, Sierra Nevada Foothills, northern and central Sierra Nevada, San Francisco Bay Area, and southern Coast Ranges in sandy to gravelly open areas at elevations below 2,000 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces light pink to white flowers with a yellow to light pink tube, typically clustered in groups of 7 to 25 blooms. Growing with erect stems featuring several subequal branches spreading to ascending, it develops long internodes covered in translucent glandular hairs. Its leaves vary distinctively, with lower leaves having 1 to 2 pinnate lobes and upper leaves ranging from lobed to entire, generally adorned with glandular hairs. The plant produces seeds, with 2 to 3 seeds developing in each flower chamber.
Habitat: Sandy to gravelly, open areas
Bloom period: Apr-Jun
Elevation: < 2000 m
Bioregions: KR, NCoR, CaR, SNF, n&s SNH, SnFrB, SCoR
California counties: Humboldt, Placer, Amador, El Dorado, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Calaveras, Sierra, Butte, Sonoma, Trinity, Mendocino, Napa, Madera, Monterey, Siskiyou, Nevada, Marin, Shasta, Del Norte, Santa Clara, Lake, Plumas, San Luis Obispo, Yuba, Tulare, Glenn, Tehama, Contra Costa, Mono
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.