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Amsinckia tessellata
Also called Devil's Lettuce, Tessellate Fiddleneck, Checker Fiddleneck, Western Fiddleneck
Bristly fiddleneck is a bristly annual wildflower native to dry western North America and northern Mexico, found in chaparral, deserts and disturbed ground. It is a wild species rather than a garden plant, and it is grown mainly for habitat or restoration.
Amsinckia tessellata is a species of fiddleneck known by the common names bristly fiddleneck, tessellate fiddleneck, checker fiddleneck, and devil's lettuce.
The plant is native to dry regions of western North America, more specifically eastern Washington and Idaho, much of California and the Great Basin, to southwest New Mexico (U.S.) and northwest Sonora and Baja California in Mexico, usually below 6,000 feet (1,800 m) elevation.
Hairy Fiddleneck · Malheur Valley fiddleneck · Douglas' fiddleneck · Eastwood's fiddleneck · Largeflowered fiddleneck · Bentflower fiddleneck · Tarweed fiddleneck · Amsinckia marginata · Menzies' fiddleneck · Woolly breeches · Green fiddleneck · Fiddleneck
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Amsinckia tessellata 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.
