Githopsis pulchella subsp. campestris
Family: Campanulaceae · Type: annual · Native
Githopsis is a California native annual found in the northern California Cascades and northern and central Sierra Nevada in open volcanic places at elevations of 60 to 1,000 meters. Flowering from May to June, this delicate plant produces bright blue flowers with bell-shaped corollas 11 to 15 millimeters long, spreading 7 to 10 millimeters wide at the tube top. Growing with slender stems 8 to 13 centimeters tall and upper branches 1.5 to 3 centimeters long, it has a delicate, spreading form. Its leaves measure 8 to 13 millimeters long, with compact inflorescence bracts spaced less than 5 millimeters apart. The fruit features an obconic ovary 5.5 to 7 millimeters long with dense, stiff, recurved hairs and deeply ribbed surfaces.
Habitat: Uncommon. Open places, volcanic soil
Bloom period: May-Jun
Elevation: 60-1000 m
Bioregions: CaR, n&c SN.
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