Nemacladus interior

Sierra nevada nemacladus

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: annual · Native

Sierra nevada nemacladus is a California native annual found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Sierra Nevada Foothills, Tehachapi, San Joaquin Valley, and Transverse Ranges on dry, gravelly slopes and in yellow-pine forest at elevations of 150 to 2,700 meters. Flowering from May to July, this delicate plant produces white flowers with distinctive yellow spots and maroon arches, creating a complex floral structure. Growing 7 to 25 centimeters tall with stiffly ascending stems, it develops erect branches typically emerging 3 to 6 centimeters above the base. Its leaves are 10 to 20 millimeters long, oblanceolate to elliptic, with irregular serrated edges and a glabrous surface. The fruit is a narrow obconic structure 2 to 2.5 millimeters long with acute base and tip.

Habitat: Dry, gravelly slopes, yellow-pine forest

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 150-2700 m

Bioregions: SNF, SNH, Teh, SnJV, SnBr.

California counties: Fresno, Tuolumne, Plumas, Stanislaus, San Bernardino, Butte, Tulare, Amador, Mariposa, Merced, Madera, Calaveras, Kern, San Luis Obispo, El Dorado, Lake, Los Angeles, Placer, Lassen

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