Trichostema austromontanum

San jacinto bluecurls

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: annual · Native

San jacinto bluecurls is a California native annual herb found in southern California mountain ranges in rocky or chaparral habitats. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces delicate blue to purple flowers with curved stamens emerging from small, pale tubular corollas. Growing with slender stems 10 to 30 centimeters tall covered in a mix of short appressed and longer spreading hairs, some of which are glandular. Its leaves are elliptic, generally 2 to 5 centimeters long with petioles less than 5 millimeters, typically longer than they are wide. The flower's distinctive calyx lobes are more than twice the length of the flower tube, widest at the base and ending in sharp acute points.

California counties: San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles, Kern, Tulare, Santa Barbara, Mono, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Ventura, San Diego, Alpine

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