Johnstonella angustifolia

Narrow-leaved johnstonella

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Narrow-leaved johnstonella is a California native annual found in the eastern Sierra Nevada desert and Desert bioregions in creosote-bush scrub and desert woodland at elevations below 1,600 meters. Flowering from January to June, this plant produces yellow-appendaged flowers in small dense clusters. Growing with decumbent to ascending branches 5 to 20 centimeters tall, it has strigose stems with spreading coarse, bristly hairs. Its linear leaves are 1 to 4 centimeters long, rough-hairy with bulbous-based bristles scattered along the stem. The fruit consists of 3 to 4 nutlets, with one slightly larger than the others, each approximately 1 millimeter long and lance-ovate with pale tubercles.

Habitat: Common, sandy, occasionally silty to gravelly soils, creosote-bush scrub, desert woodland

Bloom period: Jan-Jun

Elevation: < 1600 m

Bioregions: SNE, D

California counties: San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo, San Diego, Imperial, Kern, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles

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