Navarretia filicaulis

Short description: Species of flowering plant

Navarretia filicaulis

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Ericales
Family:  | Polemoniaceae
Genus:  | Navarretia
Species:  |

N. filicaulis

Binomial name
Navarretia filicaulis

(Torr. ex A.Gray) Greene

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

* Jepson Manual Treatment
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Wikidata ☰ Q6982134 entry

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