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Linanthus bellus
Also called Desert Beauty
Linanthus bellus is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name desertbeauty. It is known only from northern Baja California and eastern San Diego County, California, where it grows in high desert chaparral in sandy soils. This is a petite annual herb producing short, threadlike stems lined with occasional tiny needle-lobed leaves. The inflorescence is usually a single tiny flower with bright pink lobes no more than a centimeter across. The flower has a yellow throat with purple spots.
Harkness' flaxflower · Bigelow's linanthus · San Gabriel linanthus · Desertsnow · Fringed linanthus · Eveningsnow · Yellow gilia · Inyo gilia · Jones' linanthus · Baldwin Lake linanthus · Orcutt's linanthus · Sandblossoms
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Linanthus bellus 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.
