Githopsis pulchella subsp. pulchella

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: annual · Native

Githopsis is a native annual found in California's grasslands and open woodlands at low to moderate elevations. Flowering from May to July, this delicate plant produces deep blue bell-shaped flowers 10 to 24 millimeters long with distinctively wide lobes. Growing with slender stems 10 to 40 centimeters tall, it develops branching stems with upper branches extending more than 3.2 centimeters. Its leaves are small, measuring 7 to 18 millimeters in length, with a delicate, understated structure. The plant's ovary is deeply ribbed and cylindrical, with a style that is papillate along its upper portion.

California counties: Mariposa, Calaveras, El Dorado, Tuolumne, Amador, Stanislaus, San Joaquin

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