Leptosiphon bolanderi

Bolander's linanthus

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Bolander's linanthus is a California native annual found in northwestern California, the Cascade Range, northern and central Sierra Nevada foothills, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco Bay Area, and Modoc Plateau in drying areas of woodland and chaparral at elevations of 200 to 1,700 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces delicate white, pink, blue, or lilac flowers with a yellow throat, funnel-shaped and approximately 5 to 6 millimeters long. Growing with thread-like stems 5 to 20 centimeters tall, sometimes glabrous and sometimes hairy, the plant has a delicate, slender appearance. Its leaves are composed of narrow linear lobes 2 to 5 millimeters long, giving the plant a fine, intricate texture. Each stem typically bears a single flower on a slender 5 to 25 millimeter peduncle, creating a graceful, minimalist botanical display.

Habitat: Drying areas in woodland, chaparral

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: 200-1700 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR, n&ampc SNF, SNH, SnFrB, MP

California counties: Mendocino, Tuolumne, Modoc, Trinity, Lake, Tehama, Placer, El Dorado, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen, Siskiyou, Stanislaus, Butte, Colusa, Fresno, Los Angeles, Kern, Glenn, Sierra, Nevada, Napa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Solano, Calaveras

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