Scientific name:

Navarretia atractyloides

Family: Phlox or Polemoniaceae

Blooms: May - July

Plant Height: 5 - 29 cm

Habitat: Dry places, many communities

About: Like most navarretias, this is a prickly plant. It is common and reasonably easy to recognize. It has small, deep violet, tubular flowers. Less attractive but more distinctive are its spiny bracts, broad at the base, narrowing to a terminal lobe which is longer than the adjacent lobes, and with a tip that more or less follows the curve of the bract. The sharply down-curved tip of the bract of the Hooked Navarretia is quite different.

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