Leptosiphon bicolor
Appearance
Leptosiphon bicolor | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Polemoniaceae |
Genus: | Leptosiphon |
Species: | L. bicolor
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Binomial name | |
Leptosiphon bicolor | |
Synonyms | |
Linanthus bicolor (Nutt.) Greene |
Leptosiphon bicolor (syn. Linanthus bicolor), known as true babystars, is a low annual flowering plant with clumps of needle-like leaves. Populations often contain both white-flowered and pink-flowered plants. It is native to the west coast of North America from northern Baja California to southern British Columbia.
External links
- Calflora Database: Leptosiphon bicolor (True babystars)
- Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Leptosiphon bicolor
- UC CalPhotos gallery: Leptosiphon bicolor
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leptosiphon bicolor.
Categories:
- Leptosiphon
- Flora of California
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora of Washington (state)
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
- Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
- Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
- Natural history of the Central Valley (California)
- Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
- Plants described in 1848
- Ericales stubs