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True Babystars

Leptosiphon bicolor

Also called Bicolor Babystars

True Babystars
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Polemoniaceae (Polemoni family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
W. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Leptosiphon bicolor (syn. Linanthus bicolor), known as true babystars, is a low annual flowering plant related to Phlox with clumps of needle-like leaves. Populations often contain both white-flowered and pink-flowered plants. It is native to the west coast of North America from northern Baja California to southern British Columbia.

Other Leptosiphon plants

Bristly linanthus · Serpentine linanthus · False Babystars · Golden linanthus · Bolander's linanthus · Mojave linanthus · Whiskerbrush · Thread linanthus · Large Flower Linanthus · Lemmon's linanthus · Narrowflower flaxflower · Mustang clover

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptosiphon bicolor by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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