Nemacladus calcaratus

Chimney creek nemacladus, Chimney Creek Nemacladus

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Chimney creek nemacladus is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada Mountains (Chimney Creek) on decomposed granite flats at elevations of 1,900 to 2,100 meters. Flowering in June, this delicate plant produces white flowers with pink or red midveins, small and intricately shaped with two lower petals forming a distinctive spur. Growing with erect stems 2 to 4 centimeters tall, branching from the base and featuring a dull red-brown stem base. Its leaves are narrow and 2 to 5 millimeters long, lance-shaped to spoon-like, with remote teeth and fine hairs. The fruit is a small hemispheric structure approximately 3 millimeters wide, containing a single seed with delicate vertical and transverse surface lines.

Habitat: Decomposed granite flats

Bloom period: Jun

Elevation: 1900-2100 m

Bioregions: s SNH (Chimney Creek).

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