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Leafy Nama

Nama densa

Also called Mat Nama, Gray Mat

Leafy Nama
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Namaceae (Nam family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Oregon to E. California
Climate
temperate

About

Nama densa (also spelt Nama densum) is a species of flowering plant in the family Namaceae known by the common name leafy fiddleleaf, matted nama or leafy nama. It is an annual plant and ranges from the Pacific Northwest to California to Colorado.

Where it grows

It is native to the western United States from the Pacific Northwest to California to Colorado, where it grows in many types of mostly sandy or gravelly habitat.

Other Nama plants

Ground nama · California fiddleleaf · Purplemat · Depressed fiddleleaf · Bristly nama · Lobb's fiddleleaf · Eggleaf fiddleleaf · Rothrock's fiddleleaf · Mud fiddleleaf · Whitewhisker fiddleleaf · Fiddleleaf

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nama densa 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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