Pectocarya peninsularis

Baja pectocarya

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Baja pectocarya is a California native annual found in western desert regions of Sonora in desert washes, roadsides, and clearings at elevations of 30 to 300 meters. Flowering from February to April, this plant produces delicate white flowers with corolla limbs 1.5 to 3.5 millimeters in diameter. Growing with ascending to erect stems 2 to 24 centimeters tall, it develops distinctive nutlets with winged margins and hook-tipped bristles. Its small leaves cluster along the stem, with basal cleistogamous flowers emerging beneath the main flowering branches. The plant's tiny nutlets, which arrange themselves in a single plane, are ovate-elliptic and 1.1 to 2 millimeters long.

Habitat: Washes, roadsides, clearings

Bloom period: Feb-Apr

Elevation: 30-300 m

Bioregions: w DSon

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