Nama demissa var. demissa

Family: Namaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Nama demissa is a California native perennial found in southern Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi, San Gabriel, San Bernardino, eastern Peninsular Ranges, Sierra Nevada East, and Deserts in sandy or gravelly habitats at elevations of 70 to 1,780 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces blue-purple to rose-pink flowers with a corolla 7 to 14 millimeters long and limb 5 to 9 millimeters in diameter. Growing with fine-strigose green stems, it forms low-spreading clumps with delicate linear to spoon-shaped leaves 1 to 4 centimeters long. Its leaves are sessile, appearing pale green with fine hairs less than 1 millimeter long. The small fruits are approximately 3 to 4 millimeters long, containing elliptic-ovoid seeds.

Habitat: Sandy or gravelly flats, slopes

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: 70-1780(2040) m

Bioregions: s SNH, Teh, SnGb, SnBr, e PR, SNE, D

California counties: San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Kern, Inyo, Mono, San Diego, Tulare, Imperial, Riverside

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