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Navarretia peninsularis
Also called Baja Navarretia
Navarretia peninsularis is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Baja navarretia or Baja pincushionplant. It is native to southern California and Baja California, where it is an occasional member of the flora in wet spots in mountain forests. It is a hairy, glandular annual herb growing up to about 25 centimeters in maximum height. The leaves are 1 to 3 centimeters long and divided into many narrow linear or needlelike lobes. The inflorescence is a head of flowers lined with leaflike bracts. The lavender flowers are just under a centimeter long.
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 peninsularis 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.
