Navarretia pubescens

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Navarretia pubescens is a California native annual found in northern California bioregions including the North Coast Ranges, Cascade Ranges, Sierra Nevada Foothills, central Sierra Nevada, Sacramento Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, and southern Coast Ranges in open slopes, gravel, and clay habitats at elevations below 1,850 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces bright blue-purple flowers with red-purple throats in delicate, glandular-hairy inflorescences. Growing with erect stems 14 to 33 centimeters tall, ranging from tan to red-brown with ascending branches and densely clustered linear leaf lobes. Its leaves are intricately 2-pinnate-lobed, with lower leaves glabrous and upper leaves puberulent, featuring linear lobes that are often many-toothed. The flower's distinctive corolla reaches 10 to 16 millimeters long, with stamens and style extending beyond the calyx.

Habitat: Open, slopes, gravel, clay

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: < 1850 m

Bioregions: NCoR, CaR, SNF, c SNH, ScV, SnFrB, SCoR

California counties: Kern, Sutter, Butte, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Mendocino, Glenn, Lake, Tulare, Fresno, Madera, Tehama, Humboldt, Napa, Yuba, Stanislaus, El Dorado, Sacramento, Merced, Santa Clara, Contra Costa, Siskiyou, Monterey, Sonoma, Yolo, Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, Marin, Placer, Plumas, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Nevada, Santa Barbara, Solano, Shasta, Alameda, Los Angeles, Ventura

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