Nemacladus gracilis

Slender nemacladus

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Slender nemacladus is a California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada Foothills, San Joaquin Valley, and southern Coast Ranges in Kern County on rocky slopes and sandy washes at elevations up to 1,900 meters. Flowering from March to April, this delicate plant produces white to pale lavender flowers with lavender-veined petals, small and intricately shaped. Growing with extremely slender erect stems 2.5 to 10 centimeters tall, branching from the base with fine, delicate structure. Its narrow leaves are 2.5 to 10 millimeters long, oblanceolate to oblong, irregularly toothed or slightly lobed, and somewhat hairy. The fruit is a tiny, widely obconic capsule approximately 1.5 millimeters long with a rounded tip.

Habitat: Rocky slopes, sandy washes

Bloom period: Mar-Apr

Elevation: < 1900 m

Bioregions: s SNF (Kern Co.), SnJV (Kern Co.), SCoRI, SCoRO (San Rafael Mtns).

California counties: Kern, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, Fresno, Monterey, San Benito, Merced, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Inyo

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