Leucospora multifida
(Michx.) Nutt.
Narrowleaf paleseed, Obi-Wan Conobea
Leucospora multifida is an annual herb that is not native to California.
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Plantaginaceae
(Scrophulariaceae) - Leucospora
Bloom Period
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Leucospora multifida: Star Wars Plant Names
[Wikipedia] Taxonomy: One of its vernacular names, Obi-Wan conobea, is a reference to the Star Wars character Obi-Wan Kenobi, and is sometimes considered as purely a joke snuck into the 1994 edition of the Plants of the Chicago Region. However, this actually was a name in use by regional botanists at the time, "the kind of jocular lingo that arises among field botanists working in humid, hot summer sun and bedeviled by all manner of unpleasant flying and crawling things". (link added by Mary Ann Machi)
