Keckiella ternata var. septentrionalis

Northern blue stemmed keckiella

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Northern blue stemmed keckiella is a California native shrub found in the Tehama and Western Transverse Ranges in mixed-hardwood forest and chaparral at elevations of 800 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces flowers with glandular-hairy inflorescences. Growing with blue-green stems that become woody with age, it forms a compact shrub reaching approximately one to two meters tall. Its leaves are arranged in distinctive whorls of three, creating a structured and architectural appearance. The flower calyx is relatively small, measuring 3.8 to 5.5 millimeters long and covered in glandular hairs.

Habitat: Mixed-hardwood forest, chaparral

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 800-1900 m

Bioregions: Teh, WTR.

California counties: Kern, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Bernardino

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