Keckiella breviflora var. glabrisepala

Hairless gaping keckiella

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Hairless gaping keckiella is a California native shrub found in northern Coast Ranges, southern Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, Sacramento Valley, southern Coast Ranges, and northern eastern Sierra Nevada on rocky slopes, in forests and chaparral at elevations up to 2,800 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces pale yellow to cream-colored flowers in clusters with notably smooth, glabrous calyces. Growing with erect or spreading stems 30 to 100 centimeters tall, it forms a dense, multi-branched structure. Its leaves are generally opposite, with narrow to lance-shaped blades 15 to 35 millimeters long, displaying a leathery texture and green to grayish-green coloration. The fruit is a small, dry capsule characteristic of its plant family.

Habitat: Rocky slopes, forest, chaparral

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: < 2800 m

Bioregions: NCoRI, s CaR, SN, ScV, SCoRI, n SNE exc W&ampI

California counties: Fresno, Tuolumne, Butte, Kern, Amador, Inyo, Lake, Mono, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Sutter, Yuba, Alpine, Madera, Mariposa, Nevada, Merced, Tehama, Calaveras, El Dorado, Tulare, Placer, Stanislaus, Napa, Yolo, Santa Barbara

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