Petrorhagia dubia

Hairypink

Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Hairypink is a naturalized annual herb found in the Klamath Ranges, northern California Coastal Ranges, California Floristic Province, northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, northern Sierra Nevada, Sacramento Valley, Central Coast, southern Coast Ranges, and Peninsular Ranges in disturbed areas and woodland savanna at elevations below 1,800 meters. Flowering from spring to early summer, this plant produces pink flowers with darker pink veins, petals subtly notched or two-lobed. Growing with erect stems 10 to 60 centimeters tall, its middle stem sections are densely covered in glandular hairs. Its leaves range from linear to oblong, with lower leaves more oblanceolate, measuring 10 to 60 millimeters long. Small seeds are cone-shaped and slightly bumpy, measuring 1 to 1.4 millimeters long.

Habitat: Disturbed areas, woodland savanna

Bloom period: Spring-early summer

Elevation: < 1800 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoR, CaRF, n SNF, n&ampc SNH, ScV, CCo, SCoRO, PR

California counties: Yuba, San Diego, Nevada, Butte, Trinity, Tulare, El Dorado, Mendocino, Napa, Placer, Tehama, Yolo, Shasta, Amador, Calaveras, Marin, Sacramento, Humboldt, Solano, Monterey, Fresno, Lake, Contra Costa, Plumas, Sutter, Mariposa, Siskiyou, Colusa, San Luis Obispo, Madera, Sierra

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