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Amsinckia douglasiana
Douglas' fiddleneck is a bristly annual herb in the borage family, native to coastal southern California, with coiled fiddlehead flower clusters of yellow-orange blooms. Grow it as a sun-loving wildflower in dry, well-drained soil, sowing seed in cool weather.
Amsinckia douglasiana is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, known by the common name Douglas' fiddleneck. It is endemic to the coastal Santa Monica Mountains and Santa Ynez Mountains of southern California.
Hairy Fiddleneck · Malheur Valley fiddleneck · Eastwood's fiddleneck · Largeflowered fiddleneck · Bentflower fiddleneck · Tarweed fiddleneck · Amsinckia marginata · Menzies' fiddleneck · Woolly breeches · Bristly fiddleneck · Green fiddleneck · Fiddleneck
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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.
