Nemophila breviflora

Great basin nemophila, Great Basin Nemophila

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.3

Great basin nemophila is a rare (CNPS 2B.3) California native annual found in the Modoc Plateau in streambanks, meadows, and thickets at elevations of 1,500 to 2,200 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces delicate white to light purple flowers with a bell-shaped corolla less than 4 millimeters wide. Growing with slender stems bearing minute reflexed prickles, it forms small, compact plants. Its lower leaves have 3 to 6 acute lobes, each blade 7 to 30 millimeters long and 15 to 40 millimeters wide. The plant produces a single seed that is reddish and characterized by smooth surfaces with regular deep pits.

Habitat: Streambanks, meadows, thickets

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 1500-2200 m

Bioregions: MP

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