Plagiobothrys stipitatus

Great valley popcornflower, Great Valley Popcornflower

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Great valley popcornflower is a California native annual found in valley and foothill grasslands at low elevations. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces white flowers with yellow appendages in small clusters. Growing with ascending to erect stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall that are often fleshy and slightly hollow, it has delicate branching habit. Its cauline leaves are covered with short hairs that have bulbous bases, ranging from 2 to 11 centimeters long. The fruit consists of small tan nutlets with subtle cross-ribs and a distinctive V-shaped ridge, each 1 to 2 millimeters long.

California counties: Solano, Contra Costa, Fresno, Alameda, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Yolo, Colusa, Butte, San Benito, Sonoma, Sutter, Tehama, Lake, Tuolumne, Inyo, Modoc, San Luis Obispo, Napa, Humboldt, Madera, Calaveras, El Dorado, Tulare, Stanislaus, Merced, Mendocino, Placer, Del Norte, Riverside, Monterey, Shasta, Mariposa

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