Calflora: Amsinckia lycopsoides

Amsinckia lycopsoides Lehm.

Bugloss fiddleneck, tarweed fiddleneck

Amsinckia lycopsoides, a dicot, is an annual herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Sagebrush Scrub, Foothill Woodland
Elevation:	between 0 and 1312 feet
Family:	BORAGINACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Amsinckia found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
(according to)

PLANTS:	Amsinckia barbata
PLANTS:	Benthamia lycopsoides
ICPN:	Amsinckia glomerata

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are reported records.
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Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 21 / 9 CCH Butte: 29 / 27 CCH Calaveras: 1 / 1 CCH Contra Costa: 24 / 9 CCH Colusa: 14 / 12 CCH El Dorado: 3 / 3 CCH Fresno: 6 / 6 CCH Glenn: 25 / 24 CCH Kern: 2 / 0 CCH Lake: 4 / 4 CCH Lassen: 1 / 1 CCH Los Angeles: 3 / 3 CCH Madera: 6 / 6 CCH Mendocino: 2 / 1 CCH Merced: 10 / 10 CCH Monterey: 7 / 6 CCH Mariposa: 1 / 1 CCH Marin: 1 / 1 CCH Napa: 7 / 5 CCH Placer: 1 / 1 CCH Sacramento: 2 / 1 CCH Santa Barbara: 7 / 6 CCH San Bernardino: 1 / 1 CCH San Benito: 10 / 10 CCH Santa Clara: 1 / 1 CCH Santa Cruz: 1 / 1 CCH San Diego: 4 / 4 CCH San Francisco: 2 / 0 CCH Shasta: 11 / 9 CCH Siskiyou: 1 / 1 CCH San Joaquin: 14 / 14 CCH San Luis Obispo: 6 / 3 CCH San Mateo: 1 / 1 CCH Solano: 4 / 2 CCH Sonoma: 4 / 2 CCH Stanislaus: 28 / 27 CCH Tehama: 20 / 20 CCH Trinity: 1 / 1 CCH Tulare: 2 / 1 CCH Tuolumne: 2 / 2 CCH Yolo: 10 / 9 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Amsinckia lycopsoides from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (AMLY)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database