Plagiobothrys collinus var. fulvescens

Rough-stemmed popcornflower, Rough-Stemmed Popcornflower

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Rough-stemmed popcornflower is a California native annual found in southern Coast Ranges, southwestern California, and western Colorado Desert in dry, gravelly places, coastal scrub, chaparral, and conifer forest openings at elevations of 300 to 1,800 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces small white flowers with corolla limbs approximately 2 millimeters in diameter. Growing with somewhat prostrate stems 10 to 40 centimeters long covered in coarse, rough hairs, it develops an elongate inflorescence that extends beyond its leaves. Its leaves are lanceolate, 1 to 3 centimeters long and 3 to 5 millimeters wide. The fruit consists of smooth nutlets 1.5 to 2 millimeters long.

Habitat: dry +- gravelly places, openings in chaparral, coastal scrub, conifer forest, occasionally coastal scrub

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: generally 300-1800+ m

Bioregions: SCoR, SW, w DSon

California counties: Riverside, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Diego, Monterey, San Bernardino, Ventura, Orange, Fresno, San Benito, Alameda, Del Norte

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