Nemacladus ramosissimus

Nuttall's threadplant

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: annual · Native

Nuttall's threadplant is a California native annual found in southern California regions including the South Coast Ranges, South Coast, Western Transverse Ranges, San Gabriel Mountains, and Peninsular Ranges in dry, sandy or gravelly soils and chaparral at elevations of 30 to 1,600 meters. Flowering from April to May, this delicate plant produces white, pale pink, or pale blue flowers with dark midveined lobes, typically around 1.4 to 2.8 millimeters long. Growing with erect and branched stems 5 to 32 centimeters tall, the plant emerges from the base with ascending stems. Its leaves are 3 to 18 millimeters long, oblanceolate with irregular teeth or partial pinnate lobes, and have hairy margins and base. The fruit is a small, widely obconic structure approximately 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters long with a rounded tip.

Habitat: Dry, sandy or gravelly soils, burned areas, chaparral

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: 30-1600 m

Bioregions: SCoRO, SCo, WTR, SnGb, PR.

California counties: San Diego, Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Bernardino, Inyo, Santa Barbara, Kern, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, Stanislaus, Santa Clara, Mariposa, Fresno, Mono

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