Navarretia setiloba is a rare species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names Paiute Mountain pincushionplant and Piute Mountains navarretia.
Distribution The plant is endemic to California, where it is known from fewer than ten occurrences at the southern tip of the Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi Mountains, San Emigdio Mountains, and adjacent southern San Joaquin Valley, primarily within Kern County, California.
It is named for Piute Mountain in the Southern Sierra near Lake Isabella, not the Piute Mountains of the Mojave Desert, which are far outside its range.. Western Institute for Study of the Environment.California Native Plant Society Rare Plant Profile: Navarretia setiloba It is a California Native Plant Society listed critically endangered species. California Native Plant Society Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants (online edition, v8-02): Navarretia setiloba . accessed 3.16.2016.
It grows in moist depressions in grassland, oak woodland, and pinyon-juniper woodland habitats, from in elevation.
Description Navarretia setiloba is a hairy, glandular annual herb growing tall. The leaves are divided into many forked linear lobes.
The inflorescence is a cluster of flowers surrounded by leaflike bracts. The flowers are about a centimeter long and are purple-blue with white throats. The bloom period is April to July.
References
External links Calflora Database: Navarretia setiloba (Paiute Mountain pincushionplant, Piute Mountains navarretia) Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Navarretia setiloba UC CalPhotos gallery: Navarretia setiloba