Navarretia eriocephala

Hoary navarretia, Hoary Navarretia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Hoary navarretia is a California native annual found in northern and central Sierra Nevada Foothill, Sacramento Valley, and eastern San Francisco Bay Area regions in heavy soil of seasonally wet flats at elevations below 400 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces white flowers with occasional blue-tipped corolla lobes in dense, white-woolly inflorescences. Growing 5 to 25 centimeters tall with erect stems that are often branched above and covered in white, recurved hairs, it has a distinctive growth habit. Its leaves are intricately 2-pinnate-lobed with thread-like axis and clustered upper lobes, creating a delicate, feathery appearance. The fruit is an obovoid structure with 4 valves that dehisce in the lower half.

Habitat: Heavy soil of seasonally wet flats

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: < 400 m

Bioregions: n&ampc SNF, ScV, e SnFrB.

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