Collomia diversifolia

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Collomia_diversifolia_2.jpg

|status = G4

|status_system = TNC

|status_ref = {{Cite web

| publisher =NatureServe

| title = ‘’Collomia diversifolia''

| work = NatureServe Explorer

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| accessdate = 2018-09-23}}

|genus = Collomia

|species = diversifolia

|authority = Greene

}}

Collomia diversifolia is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name serpentine collomia. It is endemic to California, where it is a member of the serpentine soils flora in the North Coast Ranges from the northern San Francisco Bay Area to Shasta County. It is a small annual herb with many branches bearing dark lance-shaped leaves, the most basal ones having three small teeth. Leaves and stems are lightly to densely covered with glandular hairs. The inflorescence is a cluster of several flowers each about a centimeter wide. The star-shaped flower has pointed violet lobes with yellowish bases coming together at a purple throat.

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