Pogogyne serpylloides
Thymeleaf beardstyle
Family: Lamiaceae · Type: annual · Native
Thymeleaf beardstyle is a California native annual found in northern Coast Ranges, northern Sierra Nevada foothills, San Francisco Bay Area, and southern Coast Ranges in grassy and brushy areas at elevations below 1,200 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces lavender flowers small and delicate, clustered in dense terminal and axillary heads. Growing with prostrate to decumbent stems 2.5 to 20 centimeters long, it spreads in slender, generally branched formations. Its stems are extremely thin, approximately 0.5 millimeters in diameter, with small clusters of flowers appearing in axillary and terminal positions. The plant's inconspicuous nature allows it to blend subtly into grassy landscapes, with flowers measuring just 2.5 to 5 millimeters long.
Habitat: Grassy, brushy areas
Bloom period: Mar-Jun
Elevation: < 1200 m
Bioregions: NCoR, n&c SNF, SnFrB, SCoRO.
California counties: Contra Costa, Lake, Tulare, Monterey, Santa Clara, Tuolumne, Alameda, Calaveras, Santa Cruz, Mendocino, Mariposa, San Mateo, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Shasta, Napa, Modoc, Sonoma, Placer, San Joaquin, El Dorado, Merced, Amador, San Benito, Marin, Humboldt, Stanislaus, San Francisco
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.