Plagiobothrys fulvus var. campestris

Field popcornflower, Field Popcornflower

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Field popcornflower is a California native annual found in northern coastal ranges, central western California, Sierra Nevada foothills, San Francisco Bay Area, southern coastal ranges, and southern California coastal areas in grasslands and open woodlands at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces white flowers with yellow appendages in small clusters about 3 to 4 millimeters in diameter. Growing with erect stems 30 to 60 centimeters tall, it develops a persistent basal rosette with tomentose hairs that are some spreading and rough. Its leaves include basal oblanceolate blades 2 to 10 centimeters long and a few alternate cauline leaves that are elliptic in shape. The fruit consists of 2 to 4 triangular-ovate nutlets that are approximately 2.5 to 3.5 millimeters long and brownish in color.

Habitat: Grassland, open woodland, loamy, sandy, or gravelly soil

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: < 500 m

Bioregions: NCoR, CaRF, SNF, SnFrB, SCoRO, SCo

California counties: Mariposa, Riverside, Fresno, Contra Costa, Nevada, Butte, Orange, Merced, Monterey, San Joaquin, San Diego, Santa Clara, Solano, El Dorado, Tulare, Sacramento, Yolo, Napa, Yuba, Tehama, Amador, Shasta, Colusa, San Luis Obispo, Mendocino, Madera, Placer, Kern, San Benito, Calaveras, Sutter

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