Navarretia subuligera

Awl-leaved navarretia, Awl-Leaved Navarretia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Awl-leaved navarretia is a California native annual found in northern California regions including the North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, and Sacramento Valley in open, rocky, wet places at elevations of 150 to 1,100 meters. Flowering from April to August, this delicate plant produces white flowers with three-veined corolla lobes in distinctive clusters with awl-shaped bracted tips. Growing with erect stems 4 to 16 centimeters tall, the plant has generally purple stems with recurved hairs and ascending branches. Its leaves are pinnate-lobed near the base, with linear axis and lobes that are subglabrous, creating a fine, intricate structure. The translucent fruits uniquely dehisce when wetted, revealing an adaptive mechanism for seed dispersal in its moist habitat environments.

Habitat: Open, rocky, wet places

Bloom period: Apr-Aug

Elevation: 150-1100 m

Bioregions: NCoRI, CaR, n SNF (Amador Co.), ScV

California counties: Lake, Shasta, Tehama, Napa, Modoc, Butte, Amador, Del Norte

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