Keckiella rothrockii

Rothrock's keckiella

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Rothrock's keckiella is a California native shrub found in rocky areas at moderate elevations. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces cream to pale yellow flowers with purple or red-brown lines, creating delicate tubular blooms. Growing low and wide with young green stems densely covered in short hairs, it reaches 30 to 60 centimeters tall and spreads broadly across its habitat. Its leaves are subopposite or arranged in groups of three, with small oblanceolate to obovate blades 5 to 16 millimeters long, sometimes finely serrated near the leaf tip. The flowers are clustered in spike-like formations with nearly sessile blooms and lanceolate calyx lobes.

California counties: Tulare, Inyo, Kern, Mono, Riverside

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