Scutellaria siphocampyloides

Curve flowered skullcap

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Curve flowered skullcap is a California native perennial found in the Great Valley region, specifically in the Sutter Buttes, in open sites, seeps, dry stream beds, scrub, and woodland at elevations of 70 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces violet-blue flowers with a white-patched or white-spotted lower lip, reaching 25 to 35 millimeters long. Growing with slender rhizomes and stems 20 to 55 centimeters tall, it has delicate appressed-ascending glandular hairs. Its leaves are ovate to oblong, with basal petioles 10 to 20 millimeters long and blades featuring rounded to tapered bases and rounded tips. The fruit develops as a distinctive black seed.

Habitat: Open sites, seeps, dry stream beds, scrub, woodland

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 70-2500 m

Bioregions: CA-FP (only Sutter Buttes in GV).

California counties: Kern, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Butte, Fresno, Mariposa, Ventura, Shasta, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, Napa, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Nevada, Madera, Plumas, Lake, Humboldt, San Diego, Calaveras, Santa Clara, Merced, Glenn, Colusa, Alameda, Yuba, Sierra, San Benito, Sacramento, Amador, Santa Barbara

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