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Nuttall's Linanthus
Leptosiphon nuttallii
Leptosiphon nuttallii is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Nuttall's linanthus.
It is native to much of western North America, including the Western United States from California to New Mexico and Montana, and Northwestern Mexico. It is known from many types of habitat.
From the article Leptosiphon nuttallii on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Leptosiphon nuttallii is a perennial herb producing a patch of small, hairy stems up to about 20 centimeters tall. Each leaf is divided into usually five very narrow, needlelike lobes. The inflorescence is a cluster of flowers, each with white corolla lobes about half a centimeter long each joined at a yellowish throat.
Range & habitat
Leptosiphon nuttallii is native to northwestern Mexico and the western United States. In Mexico it grows in Baja California Sur in the Sierra de la Laguna mountains at the southern end of the Baja Peninsula. It also is known from the state of Sonora. In the United States it is widespread, growing in all the southwestern states as far east as New Mexico and the northwestern US as far north Washington and Montana.
Wikipedia: “Range”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 77696.