| Nama densum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Boraginales |
| Family: | Boraginaceae |
| Genus: | Nama |
| Species: | N. densum |
| Binomial name | |
| Nama densum Lemmon | |
Nama densum (also, Nama densa) is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name leafy fiddleleaf, matted nama or leafy nama. [1] It is an annual plant and ranges from the Pacific Northwest to California to Colorado.
It is a very hairy annual plant forming a small patch of prostrate stems up to 4 in (10 cm) long. [1] It has sessile leaves which are lanceolate to oblanceolate in shape. [2] The inflorescence is a tiny solitary flower blooming from a leaf axil. Each flower is white to purple-tinged, [1] funnel-shaped, and just a few millimeters long. [2]
It is native to the western United States from the Pacific Northwest to California to Colorado, where it grows in many types of mostly sandy or gravelly habitat. [1]
NatureServe lists Nama densum as Secure (G5) worldwide and it was last reviewed by NatureServe on 15 May 1998. [3]