Nemophila menziesii (Baby Blue Eyes)

 3/23/19 Harford Springs Reserve, Gavilan Hills, Riverside County, CA

3/23/19 Harford Springs Reserve

2/23/03 Soda Lake Road south of Arrow Bear Trail, Carrizo Plain National Monument, San Luis Obispo County, CA 

2/22/03 Soda Lake Lookout, Carrizo Plain National Monument, San Luis Obispo County, CA 

3/6/05 Wilson Valley Road between Hwy. 371 and Reed Valley Road, Aguanga, Riverside County, CA

3/1/03 Granite Loop Trail, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, Riverside County, CA 

4/27/03 Gabrielino Trail (JPL to Oakwilde), Lower Arroyo Seco, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, CA 

3/13/05 Pipes Canyon Road, Yucca Valley, San Bernardino County, CA 

5/29/05 Fuller Mill Creek Falls trail, San Jacinto Mountains, San Bernardino National Forest, Riverside County, CA

5/6/01 Gabrielino Trail, Chantry Flat to Sturtevant Falls, Big Santa Anita Canyon San Gabriel Mountains, Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Baby Blue Eyes

SPECIES: Nemophila menziesii

FAMILY: Boraginaceae (Borage Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 5/6/2001

LOCATION: Gabrielino Trail, Chantry Flat to Sturtevant Falls, Big Santa Anita Canyon San Gabriel Mountains, Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Leaves opposite; lower 1–5 cm; petiole = blade, blade linear-oblong to ovate, 5–13-lobed, lobes obtuse, entire or 1–3-toothed; upper leaves nearly sessile, blade entire or less lobed (sometimes only toothed)

Inflorescence: pedicels 20–60 mm in flower, < 70 mm in fruit

Flower: calyx lobes 4–8 mm, appendages 1–4 mm; corolla 5–20 mm, 6–40 mm wide, bowl-shaped to rotate, bright blue with white center to white (and generally blue-veined and black-dotted); filaments = or > corolla tube, anthers 2–3 mm; style 2–7 mm

Fruit 5–15 mm wide

Seeds 4–20, brown to black, wrinkled and tubercles

Ecology: Meadows, fields, woodlands, roadsides, grasslands, canyons

Elevation: 15–1900 m.  

Bioregional distribution: California Floristic Province, East of Sierra Nevada, Mojave Desert 

Distribution outside California: Oregon, Baja California

Highly variable; vars. intergrade.