Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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Nama rothrockii is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name Rothrock's fiddleleaf. It is native to the mountains and plateaus of eastern California and western Nevada and Arizona, where it grows in several types of local habitat. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb with erect and spreading stems up to about 30 centimeters long. It grows in colonies of clumpy individual plants. It is hairy to bristly, hairy, and sticky in texture. The lance-shaped to narrowly oval green leaves are 2 to 6 centimeters long and lined with regular teeth. The flower cluster is a somewhat spherical head of flowers with densely hairy sepals. Each funnel-shaped flower is about 1.5 centimeters long and a centimeter wide at the face. The flowers are pink, light to deep purple, or pale blue in color.

Plant type

Perennial herb

Size

8 - 12 in Tall

Sun

Partial Shade

Soil drainage

Fast

Site type

Sandy alluvial flats, gravelly granitic slopes, meadows

Plant communities

Pinyon-Juniper Woodland, Red Fir Forest, Subalpine Forest, Yellow Pine Forest