Navarretia leptalea

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Slender navarretia is a California native annual herb found in open grasslands and meadows at low to moderate elevations. Flowering from April to July, this delicate plant produces soft pink flowers with fine, elongated thread-like pedicels. Growing with erect stems 10 to 33 centimeters tall, it has a distinctive branching structure with ascending to spreading branches that are lightly covered in black glandular hairs. Its leaves are narrow and linear, spreading from the stem, with lower leaves occasionally showing delicate pinnate lobing. The small fruits are shorter than the flower calyx, dehiscing subtly from their tips.

California counties: Tulare, Plumas, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Mono, El Dorado, Nevada, Sierra, Mariposa, Placer, Fresno, Shasta, Lassen, Butte, Mendocino, Madera, Colusa, Inyo, Modoc, Glenn, Siskiyou, Tehama, Lake, Yuba, Trinity, Alpine, Amador

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