Leptosiphon androsaceus

False babystars

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

False babystars is a California native annual found in the North Coast Ranges and San Francisco Bay Area in open and shaded woodland and chaparral areas at elevations below 1,200 meters. Flowering from April to June, this delicate plant produces lavender, white, and pink flowers with distinctive yellow bases and violet throat, creating a soft, multicolored bloom. Growing with hairy stems 5 to 45 centimeters tall, it forms compact clusters with thread-like stems. Its leaves have narrow oblanceolate to linear lobes 6 to 30 millimeters long, creating a fine, delicate foliage structure. The flower's salverform corolla tube ranges from 10 to 33 millimeters long, with lobes often exceeding 8 millimeters and abruptly soft-pointed.

Habitat: Open or shaded areas in woodland, chaparral

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: < 1200 m

Bioregions: NCoR, SnFrB.

California counties: Yolo, Butte, El Dorado, Kern, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Fresno, San Diego, Monterey, San Benito, Napa, Santa Cruz, Lake, Santa Clara, Marin, San Mateo, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Orange, Ventura, San Bernardino, Mendocino, Sonoma, Humboldt, Alameda, Solano, Glenn, Tuolumne, San Francisco, Tehama, Trinity, Shasta, Contra Costa, Colusa, Amador, Madera

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