Navarretia myersii

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Myers' navarretia is a California native annual found in low-elevation habitats, typically growing prostrate in small, compact formations. Flowering from spring to early summer, this delicate plant produces white to blue flowers in small heads 1 to 2 centimeters wide with thread-like corollas 12 to 21 millimeters long. Growing with extremely short stems less than 20 millimeters tall, it spreads low to the ground with intricate pinnate-lobed leaves 4 to 8 centimeters long that have distinctive membrane-winged bases. Its leaves feature linear lobes concentrated in the lower half of the plant, with spreading orientation from the central floral head. The fruit is translucent and uniquely designed to dehisce when moistened, revealing the plant's adaptive strategies in its native environment.

California counties: Merced, Madera, Sacramento, Amador, Calaveras, Lake

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