Plagiobothrys mollis

Creeping popcornflower, soft popcornflower, Soft Popcornflower

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Creeping popcornflower is a California native perennial found in coastal and central California grasslands and meadows. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces small white flowers with delicate, broad petals approximately 5 to 10 millimeters in diameter. Growing with prostrate to decumbent stems 10 to 30 centimeters long that root at the nodes, it forms dense, soft-hairy mats across the ground. Its cauline leaves range from 4 to 8 centimeters long, varying from lower opposite to upper alternate arrangements. The fruit consists of tiny nutlets about 1.5 millimeters long with irregular cross-ribs and an ovate or triangular scar near the center.

California counties: Plumas, Lassen, Modoc, Sierra, Calaveras, Kern

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