Navarretia setiloba

Piute mountains navarretia, Piute Mountains Navarretia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.1

Piute mountains navarretia is a rare (CNPS 1B.1) California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada Foothills, southern San Joaquin Valley, and northern Transverse Ranges in clay or gravelly loam depressions at elevations of 500 to 2,100 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces blue to purple or light pink flowers with white flower tubes, generally darker at the base. Growing 10 to 20 centimeters tall with ascending branches, it has a glandular-puberulent stem that branches above the central stem. Its leaves are distinctively 2-pinnate-lobed with linear axes that widen and become toothed above, with linear lobes that are often forked. The flower's calyx lobes are widely strap-shaped and hairy, with stamens and style extending beyond the corolla.

Habitat: Depressions in clay or gravelly loam

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: 500-2100 m

Bioregions: s SNF, s SnJV, n WTR.

California counties: Kern, Los Angeles, Tulare

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