Cryptantha clevelandii var. clevelandii

Cleveland's cryptantha

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Cleveland's cryptantha is a California native annual herb found in southern California coastal regions and southern Channel Islands in grassland and coastal scrub habitats at elevations of 50 to 150 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces pale yellow flowers with a small corolla limb 1 to 2.5 millimeters in diameter. Growing with sparse, appressed hairs and fine-bristly margins, it forms small cymes in ones or twos with erect stems. Its leaves feature sparse, appressed hairs along the midvein with fine bristly margins. The plant typically produces one or two small nutlets in a cylindrical calyx 3 to 4 millimeters long.

Habitat: Loamy or sandy soils, slopes, generally sedimentary based substrates, occasionally serpentine (San Luis Obispo Co.), grassland, coastal scrub

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: 50-150(230) m

Bioregions: SCo, s ChI

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