Navarretia viscidula

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Sticky navarretia is a California native annual found in the northern Coast Ranges, northern Sierra Nevada foothills, Sierra Nevada, and San Francisco Bay Area in open sandy or clay flats, near pools, marshes, and meadows at elevations of 100 to 900 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces purple to red-purple flowers 9 to 16 millimeters long with distinctive glandular-hairy features. Growing with erect stems 3 to 24 centimeters tall, often branching above the base with ascending to spreading branches. Its leaves are pinnate-lobed with lower leaves 2 to 5 centimeters long, featuring thread-like lobes and upper leaves typically strap-shaped and more than 1 millimeter wide. The plant's inflorescence is characterized by leaf-like outer bracts and shorter inner bracts with a distinctive palmate shape and acuminate tips.

Habitat: Open, sandy or clay flats, near pools, marshes, meadows

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 100-900 m

Bioregions: NCoR, CaRF, SNF, SnFrB.

California counties: Tehama, Sutter, Humboldt, Marin, Butte, El Dorado, Sonoma, Amador, San Mateo, Colusa, Mendocino, Solano, Shasta, Fresno, Stanislaus, Calaveras, Napa, Mariposa, Merced, Placer, Madera, Lake, Contra Costa, Glenn, Tulare, Tuolumne, San Benito, Trinity, San Joaquin

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