Calflora: Mentzelia laevicaulis

Mentzelia laevicaulis (Hook.) Torrey & A. Gray

Blazing Star, Giant Blazingstar, smooth stem blazing star, smoothstem blazingstar

Mentzelia laevicaulis, a dicot, is a perennial herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Yellow Pine Forest, Red Fir Forest, Lodgepole Forest, Subalpine Forest, Foothill Woodland, Chaparral, Valley Grassland, (many plant communities)
Elevation:	between 0 and 8500 feet
Family:	LOASACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Mentzelia found in California.

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Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

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

Alameda: 12 / 6 CCH Alpine: 11 / 10 CCH Amador: 2 / 2 CCH Butte: 13 / 10 CCH Colusa: 4 / 3 CCH Del Norte: 2 / 2 CCH El Dorado: 1 / 1 CCH Fresno: 8 / 6 CCH Glenn: 2 / 2 CCH Humboldt: 8 / 8 CCH Inyo: 13 / 11 CCH Kern: 8 / 6 CCH Lake: 19 / 18 CCH Lassen: 7 / 6 CCH Los Angeles: 64 / 56 CCH Mendocino: 7 / 4 CCH Mono: 35 / 28 CCH Monterey: 10 / 8 CCH Modoc: 13 / 13 CCH Mariposa: 1 / 1 CCH Marin: 2 / 1 CCH Napa: 15 / 10 CCH Nevada: 1 / 0 CCH Placer: 2 / 1 CCH Plumas: 7 / 7 CCH Riverside: 26 / 26 CCH Sacramento: 3 / 1 CCH Santa Barbara: 9 / 7 CCH San Bernardino: 55 / 51 CCH San Benito: 5 / 3 CCH Santa Clara: 2 / 2 CCH San Diego: 3 / 2 CCH Shasta: 5 / 3 CCH Siskiyou: 22 / 19 CCH San Joaquin: 1 / 1 CCH San Luis Obispo: 10 / 9 CCH Solano: 3 / 3 CCH Sonoma: 11 / 8 CCH Stanislaus: 5 / 3 CCH Sutter: 1 / 0 CCH Tehama: 1 / 1 CCH Trinity: 13 / 11 CCH Tulare: 17 / 14 CCH Tuolumne: 3 / 3 CCH Ventura: 34 / 28 CCH Yolo: 8 / 7 CCH

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

Information about Mentzelia laevicaulis from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (MELA2)
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