Plagiobothrys glyptocarpus var. modestus

Cedar ridge popcornflower, Cedar Ridge Popcornflower

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 3

Cedar ridge popcornflower is a California native annual found in northern Coast Ranges Interior and northern Sierra Nevada Foothills in Lake, Butte, and Nevada counties, growing in seeps, moist grassland openings, and ponderosa pine forests at elevations of 50 to 870 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces small white flowers with delicate corolla limbs approximately 2 to 3 millimeters in diameter. Growing with slender, branching stems rising 10 to 30 centimeters tall, it emerges from thin, fibrous roots. Its leaves are narrow and lance-shaped, arranged alternately along the stem, typically 1 to 5 centimeters long and light green in color. The fruit develops as small, textured nutlets characteristic of the popcornflower genus.

Habitat: Seeps, moist openings in grassland, ponderosa-pine forest

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: 50-870 m

Bioregions: NCoRI (Lake Co.), n SNF (Butte, Nevada cos.).

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