Navarretia breweri

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Brewer's navarretia is a California native annual found in the Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, Great Basin, and Desert Mountains in open, wet areas, meadows, and streamsides at elevations of 1,000 to 3,300 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces delicate yellow flowers in small clusters with needle-like lobes. Growing densely with erect to spreading stems 3 to 8 centimeters tall, it appears brown or reddish with glandular-puberulent texture. Its distinctive green leaves are pinnately lobed with extremely narrow axes, featuring fine needle-like segments that are either entire or delicately forked. The plant's tiny yellow flowers emerge with fine hairy calyxes and prominently extended stamens and styles.

Habitat: Open, wet areas, meadows, streamsides

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1000-3300 m

Bioregions: SNH, SnBr, GB, DMtns

California counties: Mono, San Bernardino, Tulare, Inyo, Plumas, Lassen, Modoc, Merced, Butte, El Dorado, Alpine, Madera, Sierra, Placer, Nevada, Amador, Tuolumne, Tehama, Calaveras

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