''Romanzoffia californica'' is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name California mistmaiden. It is native to

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and northern

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, where it grows in moist and wet habitat, such as coastal bluffs and mountain forests. ''Romanzoffia californica'' grows erect to 40 centimeters tall from a network of hairy brown

tuber Tubers are a type of enlarged structure used as storage organs for nutrients in some plants. They are used for the plant's perennation (survival of the winter or dry months), to provide energy and nutrients for regrowth during the next growing ...

s. Around the base is a number of leaves with rounded, evenly lobed blades on petioles several centimeters long. 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 curving cyme of flowers, each on a small, erect

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. The flower has a funnel-shaped corolla which may just exceed a centimeter long, set in a calyx of pointed

sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 The term ''sepalum'' was coined b ...

s. The corolla is white in color with a yellow throat. The fruit is a capsule up to a centimeter long.

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Calflora Database: ''Romanzoffia californica'' (California mistmaiden, California romanzoffia)Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of ''Romanzoffia californica''USDA Plants Profile for Romanzoffia californicaUC Photos gallery of ''Romanzoffia californica''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q7362876 Hydrophylloideae Flora of California Flora of Oregon Flora of the Klamath Mountains Natural history of the California Coast Ranges Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area Endemic flora of the United States Taxa named by Edward Lee Greene Flora without expected TNC conservation status