Navarretia filicaulis

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Navarretia filicaulis is a California native annual found in the northern California Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and northern Mountain Provinces in open areas, chaparral, and woodland habitats at elevations of 300 to 1,200 meters. Flowering from June to July, this delicate plant produces bright purple flowers with thread-like corollas and tiny narrowly ovate lobes. Growing with slender, glandular-puberulent stems 7 to 18 centimeters tall, it has ascending branches along the stem. Its leaves are 1 to 3 centimeters long with 1-pinnate lobing near the base, featuring narrow, tapered axis and 2 to 6 terminal lobes. The fruit develops as a 2 to 4-valved structure that dehisces from tip to base.

Habitat: Open areas, chaparral, woodland, gravel, clay

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 300-1200 m

Bioregions: CaR, SN, MP.

California counties: Butte, El Dorado, Yuba, Placer, Mariposa, Tehama, Tuolumne, Amador, Calaveras, Nevada, Shasta

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