Leptosiphon latisectus

Broad-lobed leptosiphon

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Broad-lobed leptosiphon is a California native annual found in the Northern Coast Ranges in open or partially shaded grassy slopes at elevations below 1,500 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces delicate red to white flowers with red-pink to purple corollas 15 to 27 millimeters long. Growing with hairy stems 3 to 20 centimeters tall, it forms compact clusters with flowers that remain open at night. Its leaves have distinctive lobes 3 to 10 millimeters long, ranging from narrowly obovate to linear with rounded middle lobe tips. The plant's flowers feature a notably hairy calyx 5 to 9 millimeters long with narrowly acute lobes.

Habitat: Open or partially shaded grassy slopes

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: < 1500 m

Bioregions: NCoR.

California counties: Mendocino, Lake, Shasta, Monterey, San Mateo, San Francisco, Tehama, Marin, Sonoma, Colusa, Glenn, Humboldt, Napa, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Yolo, Trinity

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