Leptosiphon ambiguus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Polemoniaceae |
Genus: | Leptosiphon |
Species: | L. ambiguus |
Binomial name | |
Leptosiphon ambiguus (Rattan) J.M.Porter & L.A.Johnson | |
Synonyms | |
Linanthus ambiguus(Rattan) Greene |
Leptosiphon ambiguus (syn. Linanthus ambiguus), the serpentine linanthus, is a low annual plant with needle-like leaves and a vivid lavender flower. It grows in serpentine soils and is an endemic threatened species of the Bay Area in California.
Linanthus is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the phlox family Polemoniaceae. The species are found in western North America and in Chile, with the greatest diversity in California.
Leptosiphon is a genus of flowering plants in the Polemoniaceae family. Many included species were formerly classified as members of the genus Linanthus. Some species of this genus are grown as ornamental plants.
Leptosiphon bicolor, known as true babystars, is a low annual flowering plant with clumps of needle-like leaves. Populations often contain both white-flowered and pink-flowered plants. It is native to the west coast of North America from northern Baja California to southern British Columbia.
Leptosiphon acicularis is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names bristly linanthus and bristly leptosiphon.
Leptosiphon aureus is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name golden linanthus.
Leptosiphon bolanderi is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Bolander's linanthus.
Leptosiphon ciliatus is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name whiskerbrush.
Leptosiphon filipes is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name thread linanthus.
Leptosiphon grandiflorus is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names large-flower linanthus and large flowered leptosiphon.
Leptosiphon harknessii is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Harkness' flaxflower.
Leptosiphon lemmonii is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Lemmon's linanthus.
Leptosiphon nudatus is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Tehachapi linanthus.
Leptosiphon nuttallii is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Nuttall's linanthus.
Leptosiphon oblanceolatus is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Sierra Nevada linanthus.
Leptosiphon pachyphyllus is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family, known by the common name Sierra linanthus.
Leptosiphon parviflorus is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name variable linanthus.
Leptosiphon pygmaeus is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name pygmy linanthus.
Leptosiphon rattanii is a rare species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Rattan's linanthus.
Leptosiphon septentrionalis is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name northern linanthus.
Leptosiphon serrulatus is a rare species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Madera linanthus. It is endemic to California, where it is known from the chaparral and woodlands in the Sierra Nevada foothills, from Madera to Kern Counties.