''Navarretia heterandra'' is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Tehama pincushionplant, or Tehama navarretia.

Distribution

It is native to northern

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and southern

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, where it is found in moist areas on

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, such as

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Description

''Navarretia heterandra'' is a hairy annual herb producing a thin decumbent stem no more than 11 centimeters long. The leaves are divided into threadlike or needlelike lobes. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

is a compact, hairy head lined with red-tipped greenish

bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...

s. The flowers are white with purple-spotted tubular throats. They are under a centimeter long and have four or five lobes in their corollas.

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heterandra Flora of California Flora of Oregon Flora of the Cascade Range Natural history of the Central Valley (California) Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Polemoniaceae-stub