Nemacladus orientalis

Eastern glandular threadplant

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: annual · Native

Eastern glandular threadplant is a California native annual found in southern California interior ranges, southern Great Basin, northern Santa Barbara Mountains, eastern Sierra Nevada, and desert regions on dry slopes and sandy soils at elevations below 2,400 meters. Flowering from March to May, this delicate plant produces white flowers with distinctive maroon or brownish maroon tips on the corolla lobes. Growing 5 to 25 centimeters tall with stiffly ascending branched stems, it has an erect and slender appearance. Its leaves are 3 to 16 millimeters long, oblanceolate to elliptic, with toothed or pinnately lobed edges and a hairy texture. The fruit is small, approximately 2 to 4 millimeters long, with an obconic or nearly spherical shape and an acute tip.

Habitat: Dry slopes, sandy soils, washes

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: < 2400 m

Bioregions: SCoRI, SnGb, n SnBr, SNE, D

California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Ventura, Mono, San Diego, Merced

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