Emenanthe penduliflora (Whispering Bells)

 4/4/04 Wash on the east side of Cottonwood Road, between I-10 and visitor center of Joshua Tree National Park, Riverside County, CA

2/27/05 Nude Wash, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, San Diego County, CA 

2/27/05 San Felipe Wash, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, 
San Diego County, CA

5/7/05 Pentachaeta Trail, Triunfo Creek Park, Santa Monica Mountains, 
Ventura County, CA

4/3/11 Meccacopia Trail, Box Canyon Road, Mecca Hills, Riverside County, CA

3/15/19 Shaver's Valley, E. Riverside County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Whispering Bells

SPECIES: Emenanthe penduliflora

FAMILY: Boraginaceae (Borage Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 4/4/2004

LOCATION: Wash on the east side of Cottonwood Road, between I-10 and visitor center of Joshua Tree National Park, Riverside County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Annual, glandular, sticky, odorous

Stem erect, simple to many-branched, 5–85 cm

Leaves simple, basal, cauline, alternate; lower short-petioled; upper sessile, generally clasping, 1–12 cm, generally < 3 cm wide, toothed to deeply pinnately lobed

Inflorescence terminal; pedicels 5–15 mm in flower, 12–25 mm in fruit, thread-like, recurved

Flower: calyx lobes 4–11 mm, 1–4 mm wide, lanceolate, glandular; corolla persistent, withering, enclosing fruit, 6–15 mm, bell-shaped, white, yellow, or pink, hairy, glandular; stamens included; ovary chambers 2, style included, lobes 2, 1–4 mm

Fruit 7–10 mm, 2–4 mm wide, glandular

Seeds 6–15, flat, oval, brown; surface honeycombed

Ecology: Dry, open slopes, common after burns, disturbances

Elevation: < 2200 m.  

Bioregional distribution: High North Coast Ranges, Inner North Coast Ranges, c&s Sierra Nevada, San Joaquin Valley, Central Western California, Southwestern California, East of Sierra Nevada, Desert 

Distribution outside California: to Nevada, Utah, Arizona