Nemacladus breviflorus

Short-flowered threadplant

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: annual · Native

Short-flowered threadplant is a California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada, San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, Peninsular Ranges, and southwestern desert mountains in sandy or gravelly slopes and woodlands at elevations of 300 to 1,400 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces delicate white flowers with deep pink veins and yellow throat markings, developing on slender, deeply S-curved pedicels. Growing tiny and compact, with erect stems just 1 to 7 centimeters tall, it has densely hairy branches emerging primarily from its base. Its small leaves, measuring 1.5 to 4 millimeters long, are oblanceolate to ovate and generally densely covered in fine hairs. The fruit is a small urn-shaped capsule approximately 2 to 3 millimeters long, containing tiny round seeds with distinctive rows of large pits.

Habitat: Sandy or gravelly slopes, washes, juniper woodlands, Joshua tree woodlands, gray pine-oak woodlands

Bloom period: Mar-Jun(Jul)

Elevation: 300-1400 m

Bioregions: s SNH, SnGb, SnBr, PR, sw DMtns (Little San Bernardino Mtns)

California counties: Kern, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, Ventura, Tulare

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