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Sticky pincushionplant

Navarretia viscidula

Sticky pincushionplant is a small, hairy annual wildflower native to California, found in moist spots like vernal pools and spring meadows. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, and it needs wet conditions and sun to thrive.

Family
Polemoniaceae (Polemoni family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep soil consistently moist during its growing season, as it naturally grows in wet spots.
Soil
Moist, well-drained loam or sandy soil
Temperature
Cool to mild temperatures; tolerates cold winters in its native range
How easy
Hard
Native range
NW. & WNW. California
Climate
temperate

About

Navarretia viscidula is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name sticky pincushionplant.

It is endemic to California, where it can be found in the Sierra Nevada foothills and the Coast Ranges in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. It grows in moist and wet spots in mountain and hillside habitat, such as vernal pools and spring meadows.

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 viscidula by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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