Loeseliastrum schottii (Schott's Calico)

 

 5/24/03 Black Canyon Road between Mid Hills and Hole-in-the-Wall. Mojave National Preserve, East Mojave, San Bernardino County, CA

 5/24/03 Mid Hills, Mojave National Preserve, East Mojave, San Bernardino County, CA

5/24/03 Mid Hills

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Schott's Calico

SPECIES: Loeseliastrum schottii

FAMILY: Polemoniaceae (Phlox Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 5/24/2003

LOCATION: Black Canyon Road between Mid Hills and Hole-in-the-Wall. Mojave National Preserve, East Mojave, San Bernardino County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Flower: corolla weakly to moderately bilateral, generally white to pink, upper lip 3–7 mm, generally 1/2–3/4 tube, lobe bases maroon-streaked, lower lip 2–5 mm, lobe tips generally acute; longer stamens < upper lip

Ecology: Common. Desert washes, flats, slopes, sandy to gravelly soils

Elevation: generally < 1800 m.  

Bioregional distribution: sw San Joaquin Valley, East of Sierra Nevada, Desert 

Distribution outside California: to sw Utah, w Arizona, n Mexico

Flowering time: Mar–Jun

Weakly bilateral forms are self-pollinated

Synonyms: Langloisia s. (Torr.) Greene