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Alva Day's pincushionplant

Navarretia sinistra

Alva Day's pincushionplant
Photo: Aaron Liston, CC BY 4.0
Family
Polemoniaceae (Polemoni family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
W. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Navarretia sinistra (formerly Gilia sinistra) is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Alva Day's pincushionplant.

Where it grows

The plant is native to the western United States, where it grows in northern California, Nevada, and eastern and western Oregon. Far to the east it has been found in Routt County, Colorado.

Other Navarretia plants

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 sinistra 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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