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Amsinckia carinata
Also called Malheur Fiddleneck
Malheur Valley fiddleneck is a small annual wildflower in the borage family, endemic to Malheur County, Oregon, known from only a few sites on gravelly slopes. It is a rare wild species rather than a garden plant, so care is mainly about its native habitat.
Amsinckia carinata is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name Malheur Valley fiddleneck. It is endemic to Oregon, where it is known only from Malheur County.
Amsinckia carinata is an annual herb growing 10 to 30 centimetres (3.9 to 11.8 in) tall. It is coated in bristly hairs. The lance-shaped or narrowly oval leaves are up to 8 centimetres (3.1 in) long and are covered in hairs with pustule-like bases. The inflorescence is a coiled cyme of dark yellow to orange flowers each about a centimeter long. The fruit is a shiny, dark gray nutlet.
Hairy Fiddleneck · Douglas' fiddleneck · Eastwood's fiddleneck · Largeflowered fiddleneck · Bentflower fiddleneck · Tarweed fiddleneck · Amsinckia marginata · Menzies' fiddleneck · Woolly breeches · Bristly fiddleneck · Green fiddleneck · Fiddleneck
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Amsinckia carinata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
