Navarretia rosulata

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|species = rosulata

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Navarretia rosulata is a rare species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names San Anselmo navarretia, Marin County navarretia, and Marin County pincushionplant.[http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=5805 Calflora: Navarretia rosulata]

Distribution

The plant is endemic to California, where it is known from only about 20 occurrences in Marin and Napa Counties.

It grows in chaparral and closed-cone pine forest habitats of the Northern California Coast Ranges, from {{convert|200|-|600|m|ft}} in elevation.

It is endemic to rocky serpentine soils.

;Conservation

The plant is an Endangered species on the California Native Plant Society Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants.[http://www.rareplants.cnps.org/detail/1163.html California Native Plant Society, Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants (online edition, v8-02): Navarretia rosulata] . accessed 28 March 2016.

Description

Navarretia rosulata is a hairy, glandular annual herb growing up to {{convert|13|cm|in}} tall. It has a skunky scent. The leaves are divided into many linear lobes.

The inflorescence is a cluster of many flowers surrounded by leaflike bracts and hairy, glandular sepals. The flowers are white to lavender in color, tube-throated, and just under {{convert|1|cm|in}} long. The bloom period is May to July.

=Taxonomy=

This plant was considered a subspecies of Navarretia heterodoxa (Navarretia heterodoxa ssp. rosulata) until 1993, when it was separated and named a distinct species.Day, A. G. (1993). "New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Allophyllum, Gilia, and Navarretia (Polemoniaceae)." Novon 3:4 331-40.

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