Navarretia setiloba
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Navarretia setiloba is a rare species of flowering plant in the phlox family
known by the common name Piute Mountain pincushionplant. It is endemic to California
, where it is known from fewer than ten occurrences at the southern tip of the Sierra Nevada and adjacent Tehachapi Mountains
.
It is named for Piute Mountain in the Sierra near Lake Isabella
, not the Piute Mountains
of the Mojave Desert
, which are outside its range. It grows in moist depressions in woodland and grassland habitat.
It is a hairy, glandular annual herb growing 10 to 20 centimeters tall. The leaves are divided into many forked linear lobes. The inflorescence
is a cluster of flowers surrounded by leaflike bracts. The flowers are about a centimeter long and are purple-blue with white throats.
Polemoniaceae
Polemoniaceae are a family of about 25 genera with 270-400 species of annual and perennial plants, native to the Northern Hemisphere and South America, with the center of diversity in western North America, especially in California.Only one genus is found in Europe, and two in Asia, where they...
known by the common name Piute Mountain pincushionplant. It is endemic to California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, where it is known from fewer than ten occurrences at the southern tip of the Sierra Nevada and adjacent Tehachapi Mountains
Tehachapi Mountains
The Tehachapi Mountains , regionally also called The Tehachapis, are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California in the Western United States...
.
It is named for Piute Mountain in the Sierra near Lake Isabella
Lake Isabella
Lake Isabella is a reservoir in Kern County, California created by the earthen Isabella Dam. It was formed in 1953 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Kern River at the junction of its two forks at Whiskey Flat. At 11,000 acres , it is one of the larger reservoirs in California...
, not the Piute Mountains
Piute Mountains
The Piute Mountains are found in southeastern California, in the Mojave Desert. The range crosses Interstate 40 at Mountain Springs Summit, 2,770 feet above sea level....
of the Mojave Desert
Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert occupies a significant portion of southeastern California and smaller parts of central California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona, in the United States...
, which are outside its range. It grows in moist depressions in woodland and grassland habitat.
It is a hairy, glandular annual herb growing 10 to 20 centimeters tall. The leaves are divided into many forked linear lobes. The inflorescence
Inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Strictly, it is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified...
is a cluster of flowers surrounded by leaflike bracts. The flowers are about a centimeter long and are purple-blue with white throats.