Lessingia pectinata var. tenuipes
Sticky lessingia
Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Native
Sticky lessingia is a California native annual herb found in the Sierra Nevada Foothills, San Joaquin Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, and south Coast Ranges in coastal scrub, woodland, pine forest, and chaparral at elevations of 15 to 1,600 meters. Flowering from May to October, this plant produces white to yellow flowers in small, delicate clusters with distinctive glandular appearance. Growing with slender stems 10 to 30 centimeters tall, these plants are green or tan, becoming increasingly hairy and puberulent toward the upper portions. Its leaves are small, ranging from 2 to 30 millimeters long, with variable form—some entire while others may be lightly toothed or lobed along the edges. The plant's delicate, wispy structure and glandular surfaces make it a subtle but distinctive component of California's diverse annual wildflower communities.
Habitat: Coastal scrub, woodland, pine forest, chaparral, occasionally sandy soil
Bloom period: May-Oct
Elevation: 15-1600 m
Bioregions: c&s SNF, SnJV, SnFrB, SCoR.
California counties: Kern, San Benito, San Joaquin, Monterey, Tulare, Contra Costa, Merced, Fresno, Madera, Tuolumne, San Luis Obispo, Kings, Sacramento, Stanislaus, Mariposa, San Bernardino, Santa Clara, Santa Barbara, El Dorado, San Mateo
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.