Calflora: Plectritis ciliosa ssp. insignis

Plectritis ciliosa (E. Greene) Jepson ssp. insignis (Suksd.) D. Morey

longspur seablush, showy plectritis

Plectritis ciliosa ssp. insignis, 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.

Wetlands:	Usually occurs in non wetlands, but occasionally found in wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Elevation:	between 0 and 3608 feet
Family:	VALERIANACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Plectritis found in California.
	See the more inclusive parent record Plectritis ciliosa.

Name Status:

Accepted by PLANTS + JM93
TJM2: accepted name:		Plectritis ciliosa

Other Names:

PLANTS:	Plectritis californica var. rubens
PLANTS:	Plectritis ciliosa var. davyana
PLANTS:	Plectritis macroptera var. patelliformis

NOTE: Plectritis ciliosa ssp. insignis is not an active name in the Calflora species table.

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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: 4 / 0 CCH Amador: 2 / 2 CCH Butte: 5 / 4 CCH Calaveras: 1 / 1 CCH Contra Costa: 9 / 2 CCH Del Norte: 1 / 0 CCH Fresno: 6 / 4 CCH Glenn: 1 / 1 CCH Humboldt: 1 / 1 CCH Kings: 1 / 1 CCH Kern: 39 / 37 CCH Los Angeles: 23 / 20 CCH Madera: 1 / 1 CCH Mendocino: 1 / 1 CCH Monterey: 14 / 12 CCH Mariposa: 1 / 0 CCH Marin: 2 / 0 CCH Napa: 6 / 3 CCH Orange: 2 / 2 CCH Plumas: 1 / 1 CCH Riverside: 40 / 32 CCH Santa Barbara: 7 / 7 CCH San Bernardino: 12 / 11 CCH San Benito: 5 / 2 CCH Santa Clara: 7 / 4 CCH San Diego: 50 / 46 CCH San Luis Obispo: 17 / 14 CCH San Mateo: 4 / 0 CCH Solano: 1 / 1 CCH Sonoma: 1 / 1 CCH Stanislaus: 2 / 2 CCH Sutter: 1 / 1 CCH Tehama: 9 / 9 CCH Tulare: 3 / 2 CCH Ventura: 1 / 1 CCH

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

Information about Plectritis ciliosa ssp. insignis from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (PLCII)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
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