Navarretia filicaulis
Topic: Biology
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Navarretia filicaulis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Polemoniaceae |
| Genus: | Navarretia |
| Species: | N. filicaulis
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| Binomial name | |
| Navarretia filicaulis (Torr. ex A.Gray) Greene
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Navarretia filicaulis is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name threadstem pincushionplant.
It is endemic to California , where it is known only from the foothills of the northern Sierra Nevada and far southern Cascade Range. It grows in chaparral, woodland, and other local habitat.
It is a hairy, glandular annual herb producing a crooked, slender, branching stem up to about 18 centimeters tall. The leaves are up to 3 centimeters long and divided into threadlike lobes. The inflorescence is a head filled with palmate green bracts speckled with resin glands. The tubular purple flowers are under a centimeter long.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q6982134 entry
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