| Leptosiphon lemmonii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Polemoniaceae |
| Genus: | Leptosiphon |
| Species: | L. lemmonii |
| Binomial name | |
| Leptosiphon lemmonii (A.Gray) J.M.Porter & L.A.Johnson |
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| Synonyms | |
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Linanthus lemmonii |
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Leptosiphon lemmonii (syn. Linanthus lemmonii) is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Lemmon's linanthus.
It is native to the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California, and to Baja California. It grows in dry inland chaparral, woodlands, and other desert and mountain habitat.
This is a small, hairy, glandular annual herb producing a thin stem no more than about 15 centimeters tall. The leaves are divided into needle-like linear lobes each a few millimeters in length.
The inflorescence is an array of a few small flowers accompanied by bracts shaped much like the leaves. Each flower has lobes only 2 or 3 millimeters long, usually white or cream in color darkening to yellow and orange in the throat, sometimes with maroon areas as well.