Navarretia cotulifolia

Cotula navarretia, Cotula Navarretia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.2

Cotula navarretia is a native annual found in the North Coast Ranges, Sacramento Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, and South Coast Ranges in heavy soil habitats at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces pale yellow flowers with thread-like tubes and four lobes, typically 8 to 11 millimeters long. Growing with erect stems 3 to 31 centimeters tall, it has glandular-hairy branches that ascend from the base or above. Its distinctive leaves are 2-pinnate-lobed with extremely narrow linear lobes less than 0.5 millimeters wide, clustered and ascending from a hairy base. The plant typically features forked pinnate-lobed bracts and hairy calyces with four strap-shaped lobes.

Habitat: Heavy soils

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: < 500 m

Bioregions: NCoRI, ScV, SnFrB, SCoRI.

California counties: Sonoma, Lake, Yolo, Solano, Napa, Colusa, Contra Costa, Glenn, San Benito, Marin, Sutter, Alameda, Santa Clara, Butte

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