Navarretia heterodoxa

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Navarretia heterodoxa is a California native annual found in southern North Coast Ranges, southern North Coast, and San Francisco Bay Area on open, rocky serpentine slopes at elevations of 100 to 900 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces purple flowers with narrow oblong lobes approximately 6 to 11 millimeters long. Growing with erect stems 8 to 24 centimeters tall that are glandular-hairy and emit a skunk-like odor, it branches into ascending stems. Its leaves are pinnate-lobed with thread-like basal lobes and cauline leaves that curve recurved at the tip, featuring an axis wider than the thread-like lobes. The plant's inflorescence is characterized by widely ovate bracts with palmate-like lobes and glandular surfaces.

Habitat: Open, rocky, generally serpentine slopes

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 100-900 m

Bioregions: s NCoRI, s NCoRO, SnFrB.

California counties: Santa Clara, San Mateo, Napa, Sonoma, Marin, San Diego, Trinity

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