Calflora: Amsinckia tessellata

Amsinckia tessellata A. Gray

Checker fiddleneck, Fiddleneck, bristly fiddleneck, devil's lettuce

Amsinckia tessellata, 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:	Creosote Bush Scrub, Joshua Tree Woodland, Sagebrush Scrub, Foothill Woodland, Valley Grassland
Elevation:	between 0 and 6562 feet
Family:	BORAGINACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Amsinckia found in California.
	This is a parent record; distribution data is an aggregate of data for subspecies and varieties: Amsinckia tessellata var. gloriosa Amsinckia tessellata var. tessellata

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
(according to)

ICPN:	Amsinckia purpusii
ICPN:	Amsinckia rostellata

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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 specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

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

Alameda: 20 / 7 CCH Contra Costa: 23 / 11 CCH Colusa: 2 / 2 CCH Fresno: 11 / 11 CCH Imperial: 6 / 4 CCH Inyo: 111 / 101 CCH Kings: 3 / 2 CCH Kern: 198 / 188 CCH Lassen: 19 / 18 CCH Los Angeles: 143 / 133 CCH Madera: 3 / 3 CCH Merced: 7 / 7 CCH Mono: 11 / 8 CCH Monterey: 30 / 26 CCH Modoc: 17 / 17 CCH Plumas: 1 / 1 CCH Riverside: 77 / 77 CCH Santa Barbara: 23 / 21 CCH San Bernardino: 385 / 374 CCH San Benito: 14 / 9 CCH San Diego: 46 / 43 CCH Siskiyou: 6 / 4 CCH San Joaquin: 10 / 8 CCH San Luis Obispo: 83 / 73 CCH San Mateo: 1 / 1 CCH Stanislaus: 5 / 5 CCH Tehama: 1 / 1 CCH Tulare: 2 / 1 CCH Ventura: 12 / 12 CCH Yolo: 1 / 1 CCH

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

Information about Amsinckia tessellata from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (AMTE3)
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