Flowers are solitary with a 5-lobed hairy calyx, short funnel-shaped corolla with 8-10 mm. white or pink petal lobes with purple veins ; the 2 mm. tube is hidden by the calyx. The throat is yellow with 5 bright yellow exserted stamens which are hairy at the base. Ramona Trail near Lake Hemet, San Bernardino National Forest, Riverside County, CA. 5-31-10. © Joan Avise. |
Flax-flowered Linanthus Leptosiphon liniflorus A fairly common 4-20 in. erect annual in grassy openings in chaparral, coastal sage scrub and borders of oak woodlands. It is found in mountain foothills and the Santa Ana Mountains. (Roberts). The 10-50 cm. slender stem branches above the base. The leaves are cleft into linear segments.Polemoniaceae Back to Polemoniaceae of Orange County, California |