Cryptantha torreyana

Torrey's cryptantha

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Torrey's cryptantha is a California native annual herb found in [bioregion needed] in [habitat details needed] at elevations of [elevation range needed]. Flowering from [specific months not provided], this plant produces white flowers less than 2 millimeters in diameter. Growing with branched stems 5 to 40 centimeters tall, it develops erect or spreading plant structures. Its leaves are linear to oblanceolate, 2 to 5 centimeters long, covered with strigose or bristly hairs that are roughly ascending. The fruit consists of 3 or 4 wide-ovate nutlets that are mottled gray and brown, smooth and shiny with rounded margins.

California counties: Nevada, El Dorado, Plumas, Mono, Ventura, Trinity, Tuolumne, Siskiyou, Tehama, Modoc, Fresno, Tulare, Alpine, Lake, Lassen, Humboldt, Placer, Mendocino, Kern, Shasta, Colusa, Amador, Inyo, Sierra, Butte, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Glenn, Mariposa, Calaveras, Contra Costa, Sonoma, Alameda, Riverside, Marin, Napa, San Benito, Del Norte, Madera, Monterey

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