Leptosiphon minimus

True babystars

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

True babystars is a California native annual found in northwestern California in grassy areas at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering in May, this delicate plant produces pink or white flowers with red and yellow throats, emerging late morning and closing by early evening. Growing with hairy stems 2 to 10 centimeters tall, it forms compact clusters in open grasslands. Its leaves have narrow lobes 3 to 13 millimeters long, ranging from narrowly obovate to linear in shape. The flower's distinctive salverform corolla has a thread-like tube 5 to 16 millimeters long, with rounded or truncate lobes 2 to 4 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Grassy areas

Bloom period: May

Elevation: < 500 m

Bioregions: NW

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