''Navarretia divaricata'' is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name mountain navarretia, or divaricate navarretia. It is native to western North America from

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, where it grows in open habitat types. It is a hairy, glandular annual herb producing a stem with pairs or whorls of purple-brown branches no more than about 10 centimeters tall. The leaves are divided into threadlike lobes. The

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is a rounded head filled with leaflike green bracts deeply divided into long, narrow, pointed lobes. The small pink-tinged white to dark blue flowers are tucked amidst the spine-lobed bracts.

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divaricata Flora of the Northwestern United States Flora of British Columbia Flora of California Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Polemoniaceae-stub