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Navarretia leptalea
Also called Bridges' Gilia
Navarretia leptalea (formerly Gilia leptalea) is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Bridges' pincushionplant.
It is native to the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Range in California and Oregon, where it grows in colorful carpets in mountain meadows. It produces glandular stems with linear or narrowly oval-shaped leaves. The tiny stem is topped with an inflorescence of one or more funnel-shaped pink flowers with long, narrow throats.
Hollyleaf pincushionplant · Brewer's navarretia · Cotulaleaf pincushionplant · Divaricate navarretia · Threadstem pincushionplant · Vernalpool pincushionplant · Hooked pincushionplant · Tehama pincushionplant · Calistoga pincushionplant · Needleleaf navarretia · Mitrefruit pincushionplant · Jepson's pincushionplant
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Navarretia leptalea 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.
