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Leptosiphon pygmaeus
Pygmy linanthus is a tiny wild annual of California and Baja California, usually only 2 to 30 cm tall, with small pink flowers and yellow throats. It is a wildflower of open habitats rather than a common garden plant, and is best grown from seed in sunny, well-drained ground.
Leptosiphon pygmaeus (syn. Linanthus pygmaeus) is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name pygmy linanthus.
It is native across much of California, including the western Sierra Nevada, Central Valley, California Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, and Peninsular Ranges. It is also native to the California Channel Islands (U.S.), and Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California (México).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptosiphon pygmaeus 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.
