Navarretia capillaris

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Navarretia capillaris is a native annual found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, California Ranges, Sierra Nevada, western Transverse Ranges, San Bernardino Mountains, Peninsular Ranges, and Warner Mountains in open, wet, gravelly areas, meadows, and streamsides at elevations of 200 to 3,100 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces small yellow flowers with blue-white lobes, delicately arranged with one to three blossoms per stem. Growing 4 to 20 centimeters tall with ascending branches that are glandular-puberulent, it has a slender, erect form. Its narrow cauline leaves are linear to narrowly lanceolate, ascending and measuring 1 to 2 millimeters wide, positioning closely along the stems. The flower's calyx is densely glandular-puberulent with translucent linear lobes, creating a distinctive and delicate appearance.

Habitat: Open, wet, gravelly areas, meadows, streamsides, snow pockets

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 200-3100 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, NCoRI, CaRH, SNH, WTR, SnBr, PR, Wrn

California counties: San Bernardino, Nevada, Lassen, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Fresno, Madera, Plumas, Tulare, Alpine, Riverside, El Dorado, Sierra, Mono, Ventura, Siskiyou, San Diego, Butte, Placer, Modoc, Mariposa, Amador, Santa Barbara, Tehama, Humboldt, Trinity, Shasta, Del Norte, Mendocino, Kern, Glenn

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