Heterocodon rariflorum

Few flowered heterocodon

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: annual · Native

Few flowered heterocodon is a California native annual found in the California Floristic Province in vernally wet places at elevations below 2,500 meters. Flowering from April to July, this delicate plant produces deep blue flowers about 3 to 5 millimeters long with white to pale blue tube and triangular lobes. Growing with thin, 4-angled stems 5 to 30 centimeters tall that are simple or branched from the base and sparsely hairy, it forms an elegant slender structure. Its cauline leaves are small, round to heart-shaped, 2 to 10 millimeters long with thin serrated edges, sessile along the stem. Flowers emerge individually at stem terminals and nodes, with an unusual fruit that opens by lateral pores near its base.

Habitat: Vernally wet places

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: < 2500 m

Bioregions: CA-FP

California counties: Plumas, Tehama, Tuolumne, Nevada, Yuba, Trinity, Sonoma, Butte, El Dorado, Mendocino, Mariposa, Riverside, Fresno, Tulare, San Diego, San Bernardino, Solano, Lake, Shasta, Santa Barbara, Lassen, Calaveras, Siskiyou, Los Angeles, Humboldt, Amador, Modoc, Monterey, Madera, Kern, Stanislaus, Sierra, Placer, Sutter, Glenn, Colusa, Napa, San Luis Obispo, San Joaquin, Contra Costa, Alameda, Alpine, Marin, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Ventura, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, San Benito

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