Nama rothrockii
Rothrock's fiddleleaf
Family: Namaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Rothrock's fiddleleaf is a California native perennial found in central Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, and eastern Sierra Nevada in sandy alluvial flats, gravelly granitic slopes, and meadows at elevations of 1,600 to 3,050 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces pink, purple, or pale blue flowers in small heads with a funnel-shaped corolla 13 to 18 millimeters long. Growing with erect, sticky stems 20 to 30 centimeters tall that form dense colonies, it spreads through rhizomes and is covered in short glandular and long bristly hairs. Its leaves are 2 to 6 centimeters long, lanceolate to elliptic, with crenate-dentate edges that give the plant its distinctive fiddleleaf appearance. The plant produces small red-brown to brown seeds that are minutely pitted, each measuring 1 to 2 millimeters.
Habitat: Sandy alluvial flats, gravelly granitic slopes, meadows
Bloom period: Jul-Aug
Elevation: 1600-3050 m
Bioregions: c&s SNH, SnBr, SNE
California counties: Tulare, San Bernardino, Inyo, Fresno, Mono, Kern, Los Angeles
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