Nama stenocarpa

Mud nama, Mud Nama

Family: Namaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.2

Mud nama is a rare (CNPS 2B.2) California native perennial found in the San Joaquin Valley, southern California Coast, southern Channel Islands, western Peninsular Ranges, and southeastern Colorado Desert in intermittently wet areas at elevations below 810 meters. Flowering from March to October, this plant produces white to cream-colored flowers 4 to 6 millimeters long with a delicate funnel-shaped corolla. Growing with prostrate to ascending stems 8 to 40 centimeters tall, it spreads with many branches covered in soft, silky, and short glandular hairs. Its leaves are oblanceolate or spoon-shaped, 5 to 30 millimeters long, with wavy margins that curl slightly under, and base clasping the stem. The fruit is 3 to 9 millimeters long, containing tiny tan to brown seeds with an irregular honeycomb-like surface.

Habitat: Intermittently wet areas

Bloom period: Mar-Oct

Elevation: < 810 m

Bioregions: SnJV, SCo, s ChI, w PR, se DSon

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