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Lepechinia ganderi is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name San Diego pitcher sage. It is known from only a few populations in northern Baja California and southern San Diego County, California, where it grows in the chaparral of the Peninsular Ranges. This is an aromatic shrub with slender branches coated in rough hairs and resin glands. The leaves are lance-shaped and sometimes have toothed edges. The raceme flower cluster bears flowers on short pedicels. Each flower has a base of long, pointed sepals below a white to light lavender tubular corolla. The flower is lipped at the mouth. The small, dark, hairless fruit develops attached to the sepals once the corolla falls.

Plant type

Shrub

Size

7 ft Tall

Sun

Full Sun

Plant communities

Chaparral, Closed-cone Pine Forest, Coastal Sage Scrub, Valley Grassland

Hummingbirds
Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

0 confirmed and 2 likely

Confirmed Likely

Anoncia Sphacelina

Anoncia sphacelina

Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla