pincushion plants

7+ lobes/spiky teeth on bract tips (example)

lime ridge navarretia
Navarretia gowenii

• corolla white to cream with purple spot at lobe bases [extending into throat]
• Mt. Diablo area

tehama navarretia
Navarretia heterandra

• corolla white, throat with purple spots [entirely] below lobes, lobe tips occasionally blue
• Mt. Diablo area

downy pincushionplant
Navarretia pubescens

• corolla throat red-purple, lobes bright blue-purple

zero or few lobes/spinky teeth on bract tips

hollyleaf pincushionplant
Navarretia atractyloides

• 3 bract tip lobes (including the tip itself in the count) (not 0)
• upper leaf and bract lobes ascending
• corolla ± included, 8–9 mm, generally purple (white), tube red-veined, lobes < 2 mm

hooked pincushionplant
Navarretia hamata

• 3 bract tip lobes (including the tip itself in the count) (not 0)
• upper leaf and bract lobes spreading
• corolla generally purple or ± pink

honey-scented pincushion plant
Navarretia mellita

• anthers included; stigma below anthers
• corolla 5–7 mm, = calyx, throat white, lobes light blue

sticky pincushionplant
Navarretia viscidula

• anthers at mouth of throat or exserted, stigma at level of anthers
• bract axis much longer than wide
• corolla 9–16 mm, 2 × calyx, purple or red-purple
• Mt. Tam

calistoga pincushionplant
Navarretia heterodoxa

• anthers at mouth of throat or exserted, stigma at level of anthers
• bract axis not much longer than wide
• stamens, style exserted
• corolla 6–11 mm, > calyx, purple, lobes ± 2 mm, narrowly oblong

marin county navarretia
Navarretia rosulata

• anthers at mouth of throat or exserted, stigma at level of anthers
• bract axis not much longer than wide
• stamens, style ± at mouth
• corolla = calyx, lavender to white, throat narrow, lobes ± 1 mm, narrowly oblong
• Mt. Tam