Nemophila maculata

Fivespot

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Fivespot is a California native annual found in the Sierra Nevada and Sacramento Valley in meadows, roadbanks, and woodland at elevations of 60 to 3,100 meters. Flowering from March to July, this delicate plant produces white flowers with distinctive dark veins and purple-spotted tips, creating a striking bowl-shaped bloom 10 to 50 millimeters wide. Growing with slender stems up to 30 centimeters tall, it spreads in delicate clusters across its habitat. Its opposite leaves range from oblong to ovate in the lower stem, with 5 to 9 lobes that are entire or occasionally toothed, while upper leaves become oblanceolate and sessile. The seeds are green-brown, developing in clusters of 2 to 12 after flowering.

Habitat: Meadows, roadbanks, woodland

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: 60-3100 m

Bioregions: SN, ScV.

California counties: Tuolumne, Fresno, Los Angeles, Placer, Calaveras, Nevada, El Dorado, Kern, Tulare, Madera, Mariposa, San Bernardino, Amador, Butte, Yuba, Sierra, Sacramento, Contra Costa, Plumas, Alameda, Marin, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara

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