NATIVEHabit: Annual 5--20 cm, branched from slender taproot, leafy, sticky; some hairs scale-like.
Leaf: 1--3 cm, linear to ovate, entire to shallowly lobed, +- wavy; petiole 5--10 mm, narrowly winged.
Inflorescence: umbels in axils, few-flowered.
Flower: calyx 2--3 mm, < 10 mm in fruit, lobes < tube; corolla 5--8 mm, narrowly urn-shaped, +- purple, lobes small; stamens +- unequal, attached at tube base, some +- exserted; style +- <= stamens.
Fruit: capsule, 2-valved, 6--7 mm wide, spheric.
Seed: 10--15, round, flat; body 2 mm wide; wing 0.5 mm wide.
Ecology: Sandy soils, dunes;
Elevation: 1200--1500 m.
Bioregional Distribution: s SNE (Inyo Co.);
Distribution Outside California: western Nevada.
Flowering Time: May
Note: Seriously threatened by grazing.
Jepson eFlora Author: Michael H. Nee
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory
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