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Downingia montana
Sierra calicoflower is a small annual wildflower of the bellflower family, native to high mountain meadows and pine forests in northern California and possibly southern Oregon. It is grown from seed and does best in cool, moist, open ground in its native montane conditions.
Downingia montana is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family known by the common name Sierra calicoflower. This showy wildflower is native to California, where it lives in the meadows and pine forests of the high mountains. Its range may extend into Oregon. This annual grows an erect stem, which may branch or not, with a few sparse small, pointed leaves. Atop the stem is usually one tubular flower. The upper lip is made up of two narrow, pointed lobes usually a shade of lavender, and the lower lip is the same color, with a central field of white and two prominent projections which may be colored yellow and dark purple. The lower lip has three lobes, each of which may have a tooth. The fruit is a capsule one to four centimeters long.
Bach's calicoflower · Hoover's calicoflower · Doublehorn calicoflower · Maroonspot calicoflower · Toothed calicoflower · Elegant calicoflower · Harlequin calicoflower · Great Basin calicoflower · Folded calicoflower · Flatface calicoflower · Dwarf calicoflower · Cascade calicoflower
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Downingia montana 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.
