Scutellaria antirrhinoides

Nose skullcap

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Nose skullcap is a California native perennial found in northwestern California, the Cascade Range, and Modoc Plateau in dry, rocky slopes, oak woodlands, and conifer forests at elevations below 2,300 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces distinctive violet-blue flowers with white-patched lower lips, measuring 13 to 21 millimeters long. Growing with slender stems 10 to 35 centimeters tall, it has delicate appressed-ascending hairs and slender rhizomes with slightly swollen tips. Its leaves are ovate to oblong, with basal petioles 5 to 10 millimeters long and rounded to tapered bases, displaying an elegant simplicity in its foliage. The fruit develops as a distinctive black seed, completing the plant's subtle but intricate lifecycle.

Habitat: Dry, rocky, often serpentine slopes, ridges, oak woodland, conifer forest

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: < 2300 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR, MP

California counties: Mendocino, Humboldt, Siskiyou, Del Norte, Nevada, Glenn, Trinity, Tehama, Plumas, Shasta, Riverside, Lake, Kern, Modoc, Sonoma, Napa, Lassen, Sierra, Stanislaus

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