Biology:Navarretia filicaulis

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Navarretia filicaulis
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Polemoniaceae
Genus: Navarretia
Species:
N. filicaulis
Binomial name
Navarretia filicaulis
(Torr. ex A.Gray) Greene

Navarretia filicaulis is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name threadstem pincushionplant.

It is endemic to California , where it is known only from the foothills of the northern Sierra Nevada and far southern Cascade Range. It grows in chaparral, woodland, and other local habitat.

It is a hairy, glandular annual herb producing a crooked, slender, branching stem up to about 18 centimeters tall. The leaves are up to 3 centimeters long and divided into threadlike lobes. The inflorescence is a head filled with palmate green bracts speckled with resin glands. The tubular purple flowers are under a centimeter long.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q6982134 entry