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San Gabriel linanthus

Linanthus concinnus

Family
Polemoniaceae (Polemoni family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
S. California
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Linanthus concinnus is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name San Gabriel linanthus. It is endemic to the San Gabriel Mountains in the Los Angeles area, where it occurs in dry, rocky habitat in chaparral and forest habitat. This is a small annual herb producing a thin, hairy, glandular stem no more than about 12 centimeters tall. The leaves are divided into narrow, threadlike linear lobes up to 1.5 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a cluster of 3 to 7 funnel-shaped flowers. The lobes of the corolla are up to a centimeter long and white with 2 magenta marks at the base of each.

Other Linanthus plants

Harkness' flaxflower · Desertbeauty · Bigelow's 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 concinnus 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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