| Leptosiphon oblanceolatus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Polemoniaceae |
| Genus: | Leptosiphon |
| Species: | L. oblanceolatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Leptosiphon oblanceolatus (Brand) J.M.Porter & L.A.Johnson |
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| Synonyms | |
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Linanthus oblanceolatus |
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Leptosiphon oblanceolatus (syn. Linanthus oblanceolatus) is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Sierra Nevada linanthus.
It is endemic to California, where it is known only from a section of the southern Sierra Nevada. It grows in temperate coniferous forest habitat.
This is a small, hairy annual herb producing a thin stem no more than about 12 centimeters tall. The leaves are each divided into widely lance-shaped lobes up to 1.5 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a head of small flowers. Each has a narrow white tube about a centimeter long and a yellow-throated white corolla just a few millimeters wide.