Calflora: Plagiobothrys acanthocarpus

Plagiobothrys acanthocarpus (Piper) I.M. Johnston

adobe allocarya, adobe popcornflower

Plagiobothrys acanthocarpus, 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:	Chaparral, Valley Grassland, wetland-riparian
Wetlands:	Occurs almost always under natural conditions in wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Elevation:	between 0 and 2000 feet
Family:	BORAGINACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Plagiobothrys found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:

PLANTS:

Allocarya acanthocarpa

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See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

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

Alameda: 8 / 4 CCH Calaveras: 1 / 1 CCH Contra Costa: 41 / 18 CCH El Dorado: 1 / 1 CCH Fresno: 20 / 14 CCH Inyo: 1 / 1 CCH Kings: 2 / 2 CCH Kern: 14 / 12 CCH Los Angeles: 10 / 7 CCH Madera: 7 / 6 CCH Merced: 20 / 16 CCH Monterey: 14 / 11 CCH Modoc: 2 / 1 CCH Mariposa: 1 / 1 CCH Orange: 10 / 10 CCH Riverside: 27 / 24 CCH Sacramento: 3 / 1 CCH Santa Barbara: 9 / 6 CCH San Benito: 10 / 8 CCH San Diego: 105 / 102 CCH Shasta: 4 / 2 CCH San Joaquin: 10 / 10 CCH San Luis Obispo: 22 / 20 CCH Solano: 3 / 3 CCH Stanislaus: 17 / 17 CCH Tehama: 2 / 1 CCH Tulare: 21 / 20 CCH Tuolumne: 2 / 2 CCH Ventura: 3 / 2 CCH Yuba: 1 / 1 CCH

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

Information about Plagiobothrys acanthocarpus from other sources:

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