Nemacladus secundiflorus

Secund nemacladus

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: annual · Native

Secund nemacladus is a California native annual found in rocky or open habitats at elevations ranging from 500 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from June to August, this delicate plant produces small white to pale lavender flowers with bilateral petals arranged in one-sided clusters. Growing 2.5 to 12 centimeters tall with erect, spreading stems that have a distinctive dull red-brown base, the plant forms a slender, branched structure. Its narrow leaves are 2 to 6 millimeters long, irregularly lobed and oblanceolate, with a hairy texture that narrows to a wide petiole. The fruit is a small ellipsoid capsule 1.5 to 3 millimeters long, containing tiny seeds with distinctive zigzag ridges.

California counties: Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, San Bernardino, Tulare, San Benito, Kern, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Ventura, Tuolumne, Riverside

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