Amsinckia tessellata (Devil's Lettuce)

 3/14/98 Saddleback Butte Trail, Saddleback Butte State Park,

W. Mojave, Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County, CA

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

CNPS Riverside-San Bernardino Chapter trip

 2/27/05 San Felipe Wash, Anza Borrego

3/26/05 Hwy. 247 (Barstow to Lucerne Valley) OHV track 

1 mile north of disposal station, San Bernardino County, CA

4/3/17 Site #19 Ricardo Campground
Red Rock Canyon State Park, Kern County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Devil's Lettuce

SPECIES: Amsinckia tessellata

FAMILY: Boraginaceae (Borage Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 3/14/1998

LOCATION: Saddleback Butte Trail, Saddleback Butte State Park, W. Mojave, Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County, CA

NOTES: El Nino year

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Flower: calyx lobes 2–4; corolla 8–16 mm, 2–10 mm wide at top, yellow or orange, tube 20-veined near base

Fruit 2.5–4 mm; surface cobblestone-like or round-tubercled, ridged or not

Ecology: Common. Often disturbed places

Elevation: 50–2200 m.  

Bioregional distribution: Inner North Coast Ranges (Colusa Co.), Great Central Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast Ranges, Western Transverse Ranges, Great Basin Floristic Province, Desert 

Distribution outside California: to Washington, Idaho, Arizona, S.America
Not heterostylous.