Plagiobothrys scriptus

Scridgee's popcornflower, Scridgee's Popcornflower

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Scridgee's popcornflower is a California native annual found in the northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, northern Sierra Nevada, and northern Sacramento Valley in moist, thin, rocky clay soils at elevations generally below 150 meters. Flowering from February to April, this plant produces pale yellow flowers with small white corollas approximately 2 millimeters in diameter. Growing with prostrate stems 5 to 15 centimeters long that are often interwoven with surrounding plants, it has a sparse-strigose appearance. Its cauline leaves range from 1 to 2 centimeters long on the lower stem and 0.5 to 2 centimeters long on the upper stem, with a delicate, spreading growth habit. The fruit consists of shiny, wide-ovate nutlets about 2 millimeters long with a distinctive triangular scar near the base.

Habitat: Moist thin, rocky, clay soil

Bloom period: Feb-Apr

Elevation: generally < 150 m

Bioregions: CaRF, n&ampc SNF, n ScV.

California counties: San Diego, Butte, Tehama, Colusa, Glenn, Placer, Stanislaus, Alameda, San Luis Obispo, Napa, Sutter, Alpine

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