Navarretia nigelliformis

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

navarretia nigelliformis is a California native annual herb found in lower montane and foothill regions at elevations of 300 to 1,400 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces yellow flowers with distinctive purple or brown spots in the throat. Growing with erect to spreading stems 9 to 32 centimeters tall, the plant is delicately branched and covered in white, recurved hairs. Its leaves are intricately 2-pinnate-lobed with very narrow linear segments less than 1 millimeter wide, spreading from the main stem. The plant's flowers feature strap-shaped calyx lobes with hairs near the middle and small paired stigmas.

California counties: Monterey, Contra Costa, Fresno, Colusa, Butte, San Luis Obispo, Tehama, Merced, Kings, Placer, Mariposa, Stanislaus, Tulare

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