Tiquilia plicata

Fan-leaved tiquilia, Fan-Leaved Tiquilia

Family: Ehretiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Fan-leaved tiquilia is a California native perennial found in desert bioregions in dune and sandy gravel flat habitats at elevations below 1,100 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces blue to lavender flowers 4 to 6 millimeters long clustered in leaf axils. Growing as a matted perennial with opposite branching stems that are somewhat glandular, it forms low-spreading clumps. Its leaves are clustered and white-canescent, with small obovate blades 3 to 12 millimeters long featuring 4 to 7 pairs of deeply sunken lateral veins. The fruit develops as a deeply 4-lobed structure with smooth, shiny ovoid nutlets.

Habitat: Dunes, sandy gravel flats

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: < 1100 m

Bioregions: D

California counties: San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial, San Diego, Inyo, Kern

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