Tehama Pincushionplant

Description

Navarretia heterandra is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Tehama pincushionplant, or Tehama navarretia. 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 is a compact, hairy head lined with red-tipped greenish bracts. The flowers are white with purple-spotted tubular throats. They are under a centimeter long and have four or five lobes in their corollas.