Navarretia pubescens is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name downy pincushionplant. It is native to southern Oregon and to the central mountain ranges of California, where it can be found in open mountainous habitat. It is a hairy, hairy annual herb producing a reddish or brownish stem up to about 33 centimeters in maximum length. The leaves are divided into many linear or needlelike lobes, sometimes clustered. The upper leaves are hairy, the lower generally hairless. The flower cluster is a cluster of many flowers surrounded by leaflike leafs and coated with downy or hairy hairs. Each flower is just over a centimeter long and blue in color with a purplish throat.