Navarretia setiloba
| Navarretia setiloba | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Polemoniaceae |
| Genus: | Navarretia |
| Species: | N. setiloba |
| Binomial name | |
| Navarretia setiloba Coville | |
Navarretia setiloba is a rare species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names Paiute Mountain pincushionplant and Piute Mountains navarretia. It is endemic to California, where it is known from fewer than ten occurrences at the southern tip of the Sierra Nevada and adjacent Tehachapi Mountains.
It is named for Piute Mountain in the Sierra near Lake Isabella, not the Piute Mountains of the Mojave Desert, which are outside its range.[1][2] It grows in moist depressions in woodland and grassland habitat.
It is a hairy, glandular annual herb growing 10 to 20 centimeters tall. The leaves are divided into many forked linear lobes. The inflorescence is a cluster of flowers surrounded by leaflike bracts. The flowers are about a centimeter long and are purple-blue with white throats.
References
- ↑ Piute Mountain: A Sky Forest. Western Institute for Study of the Environment.
- ↑ California Native Plant Society Rare Plant Profile