Collomia rawsoniana

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Collomia rawsoniana (Rawson's flaming trumpet) (32748923572).jpg

|genus = Collomia

|species = rawsoniana

|authority = Greene

| status = G2

| status_system = TNC

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Collomia rawsoniana is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name flaming trumpet. This perennial wildflower is endemic to California, where it is known from only two counties: Mariposa and Madera. It grows in the woodland understory in the Sierra Nevada foothills. This plant produces a thin, erect stem to about half a meter in height with widely spaced, deeply toothed hairy leaves each several centimeters long. Atop the stem is an inflorescence of three to seven showy red-orange flowers. Each flower is up to 4 centimeters long and trumpet-shaped, with a protruding pistil and stamens tipped with anthers covered in blue pollen.

The species name commemorates the collector of its type material, Lucy Adeline Briggs Cole Rawson Peckinpah Smallman.{{cite journal |last1=Greene |first1=E.L. |date=1888 |title=New or Noteworthy Species |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15253684#page/221/mode/1up |journal=Pittonia :a Series of Papers Relating to Botany and Botanists |volume=1 |pages=222 |access-date=9 May 2022 |quote= A most beautiful plant, by far the finest of its genus, discovered in the higher valleys of the Sierra Nevada, in Fresno County, California, by Mrs. L. A. Peckenpah (nee Rawson).}}

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