Tiquilia nuttallii

Annual tiquilia, Annual Tiquilia

Family: Ehretiaceae · Type: annual · Native

Annual tiquilia is a California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi, eastern Mono/Inyo, Mojave Desert, and Southeastern Desert regions in sandy plains, pumice gravel, washes, slopes, and saline flats at elevations up to 2,750 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces pink to white flowers clustered in leaf axils, with blossoms approximately 3 to 4 millimeters long. Growing with prostrate rosettes and opposite branching stems with appressed hairs, it forms low-spreading clusters across arid landscapes. Its leaves are small and delicate, clustered with spreading hairs, with ovate to round blades 3.5 to 9 millimeters long and entire margins. The fruit develops as four-lobed nutlets that are oblong-ovoid, smooth, and shiny.

Habitat: Sandy plains, pumice gravel, washes, slopes, saline flats

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: < 2750 m

Bioregions: s SN, Teh, e MP, SNE, DMoj

California counties: Los Angeles, Kern, Inyo, Mono, Lassen, San Bernardino, Tulare, Modoc, Imperial, Riverside

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