Downingia bicornuta

Bristled downingia

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: annual · Native

Bristled downingia is a California native annual found in grassland and vernal pool habitats. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces blue-purple flowers with a striking white central area and yellow-green spots, featuring unique corolla lobes 7 to 19 millimeters long that are densely white-hairy in the tube. Growing delicate stems with slender branching, it reaches heights of 10 to 30 centimeters. Its leaves are narrow and lance-shaped, typically arranged alternately along the stem. The fruit develops 35 to 65 millimeters long, with distinctive longitudinal seed markings.

California counties: Butte, Solano, Amador, Lassen, Tulare, Tehama, Shasta, Plumas, Modoc, San Joaquin, Lake, Placer, Yuba, Sierra, Stanislaus, Sacramento, Sutter, Merced, Fresno, Madera, Yolo

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