Navarretia sinistra

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Navarretia sinistra is a California native annual found in the Klamath Ranges, Cascade Range, and North Coast Ranges in openings within sagebrush scrub, chaparral, and forest at elevations of 50 to 2,700 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces bright pink flowers with red-streaked throats, delicate and small, approximately 4 to 9 millimeters long. Growing with erect stems 5 to 50 centimeters tall that are densely glandular and typically have a single primary axis with ascending branches, it has a distinctive upright form. Its leaves are spreading, linear or narrowly lanceolate, with upper leaves often featuring a palmate structure of 2 to 5 lobes where the middle lobe is notably wider and longer. The plant's fruits are small, dehiscing from the tip and remaining at or below the length of the calyx.

Habitat: Openings in sagebrush scrub, chaparral, forest

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 50-2700 m

Bioregions: KR, CaR, MP

California counties: Mendocino, San Bernardino, Humboldt, Nevada, Modoc, Lassen, Siskiyou, Placer, Plumas, Alpine, Trinity, Shasta, Amador, Sierra

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