Nama depressa

Family: Namaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Nama depressa is a California native perennial found in southern Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi, northern San Bernardno Mountains, eastern Sierra Nevada, and Mojave Desert in dry, sandy or gravelly flats and slopes at elevations of 360 to 1,700 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces pink or white flowers in small funnel-shaped blossoms about 3 to 6 millimeters long. Growing with prostrate stems 2 to 10 centimeters tall, the plant is distinctively forked and generally leafless in its lower half. Its leaves are sessile, oblanceolate to spoon-shaped, measuring 2 to 16 millimeters long and covered in soft, appressed to ascending hairs. The tiny seeds are brown, roughly 0.4 to 0.7 millimeters long, with cross-ridged surfaces and subtle depressions.

Habitat: Dry, sandy or gravelly flats, slopes

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: 360-1700 m

Bioregions: s SNH, Teh, n SnBr, SNE, DMoj

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