Navarretia atractyloides

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Navarretia atractyloides is a California native annual herb found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, central Sierra Nevada, southern Sierra Nevada, central western California, Channel Islands, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and Mojave Desert in open, rocky or sandy areas at elevations below 2,500 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces purple to white flowers in compact clusters with red-veined corollas 8 to 9 millimeters long. Growing with erect stems 5 to 29 centimeters tall, branching above with ascending branches and covered in glandular hairs. Its distinctive leaves are strap-shaped to lanceolate with pinnate lobes, featuring spreading basal lobes and unequal ascending upper lobes. The plant's inflorescence bracts are gland-dotted with recurved tips that have three unequal, somewhat separated lobes.

Habitat: Open, rocky or sandy areas

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: < 2500 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoR, CaRH, c SNF, s SNH, CW, ChI, TR, PR, MP

California counties: San Luis Obispo, San Diego, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Ventura, Orange, Mendocino, Trinity, Santa Cruz, Humboldt, Lake, Santa Clara, Shasta, Siskiyou, Fresno, San Benito, Tulare, Napa, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Madera, Colusa, Yolo

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