Nemacladus parikhiae

Parikh's nemacladus

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: annual · Native

Parikh's nemacladus is a California native annual found in chaparral and creosote bush scrub at elevations of 800 to 1,800 meters. Flowering from April to July, this delicate plant produces white to pale blue flowers with faint wine-red or greenish veins, featuring distinctive dark purple to reddish purple filament tips. Growing 5 to 12 centimeters tall with erect, branching stems, it emerges from the base and branches again just above its base. Its small leaves are widely triangular to elliptic, 2 to 4.5 millimeters long, and delicately toothed. The fruit is a narrow ellipsoid seed capsule 1.6 to 3 millimeters long, with an oblique base and slender tip.

Habitat: Coarse gravelly soils, chaparral, creosote bush scrub

Bloom period: (Mar)Apr-Jul

Elevation: 800-1800 m

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