Johnstonella inaequata

Panamint johnstonella

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Panamint johnstonella is a California native annual found in eastern desert regions in gravelly to clay soils, rocky slopes, and creosote-bush scrub at elevations below 1,400 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces yellow-appendaged flowers with corolla limbs 1.5 to 4 millimeters in diameter. Growing 5 to 40 centimeters tall with erect stems that are rough-hairy and occasionally branching from the base, it has a distinctive reddish-purple root. Its leaves are narrow-oblanceolate to linear, 1.5 to 4.5 centimeters long, covered in strigose hairs with bulbous-based bristles especially on the undersides. The fruit consists of four nutlets, with one slightly larger than the others, brown and finely pale tubercled, measuring 1.3 to 1.7 millimeters long.

Habitat: Gravelly to clay soils, rocky slopes, washes, creosote-bush scrub, desert woodland

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: < 1400 m

Bioregions: e D

California counties: Inyo, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial, 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.