Pogogyne zizyphoroides
Sacramento beardstyle, Sacramento Beardstyle
Family: Lamiaceae · Type: annual · Native
Sacramento beardstyle is a California native annual found in northern Coast Ranges, northern Sierra Nevada foothills, Central Valley, and San Francisco Bay Area in vernal pools and seasonal depressions at elevations below 400 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces lavender to purple flowers 4 to 8 millimeters long in dense, head-like terminal and axillary clusters. Growing 5 to 16 centimeters tall with generally ascending to erect stems about 1 millimeter in diameter, it can be simple or branched toward the stem tips. Its leaves are arranged to create compact, conspicuous clusters with distinctive floral structures. Each flower has a calyx tube 2.5 to 5 millimeters long with lobes 1.5 to 6 millimeters in length, creating an intricate botanical profile characteristic of vernal pool environments.
Habitat: Vernal pools, depressions
Bloom period: Mar-Jun
Elevation: < 400 m
Bioregions: NCoRO, n&c SNF, GV, SnFrB
California counties: Amador, Yolo, Placer, Mendocino, San Joaquin, Butte, Tehama, Alameda, Sacramento, Calaveras, Solano, San Benito, Humboldt, Yuba, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, Merced, Sutter, Glenn, Contra Costa, Colusa, Shasta, Madera, Mariposa, Siskiyou, Lake, Monterey
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.