PYGMY PLANTS
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Common slender phlox
Microsteris gracilis
Polemoniaceae
 

Pinewoods cryptantha
Cryptantha simulans
Boraginaceae

  Long-flowered threadplant
Nemacladus longiflorus var. breviflorus
Campanulaceae
   


 
Common eucrypta
Eucrypta chrysanthemifolia var. bipinnatifida
Boraginaceae
  Hairy owl's clover
Castilleja tenuis
Scrophulariaceae
[Named for Domingo Castillejo Muñoz, 1744?-1793]
 


   
Mountain carpet clover
Trifolium monanthum var. monanthum
Fabaceae
 
 
Southern mountain phacelia
Phacelia austromontana
Boraginaceae
 
Suksdorf's monkeyflower
Mimulus suksdorfii
Phrymaceae
[Named for Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf, 1850-1932]
 


 
Pygmy linanthus
Leptosiphon pygmaeus ssp. continentalis
Polemoniaceae
  Violet false-gilia
Allophyllum gilioides ssp. violaceum
Polemoniaceae
 



   
Purple false-gilia
Allophyllum divaricatum
Polemoniaceae
 

Harwood's milkvetch
Astragalus insularis var. harwoodii
Fabaceae

[Named for Robert Daniel Harwood ,1899-1984]

  California popcorn flower
Plagiobothrys collinus var. fulvescens
Boraginaceae
[Named for Zaccheus Collins, 1764-1831
 


 
Small evening primrose
Camissonia micrantha
Onagraceae
[Named for Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso, 1781-1838]
  American wild carrot
Daucus pusillus
Apiaceae
 


   
Slender pectocarya
Pectocarya linearis var. ferocula
Boraginaceae
 

Little gold poppy
Eschscholzia minutiflora
Papaveraceae

[Named for Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1793-1831]

  Small-seeded spurge
Chamaesyce polycarpa
Euphorbiaceae
   


 
Small-flowered dwarf flax
Hesperolinon micranthum
Linaceae
  Dwarf hawksbeard
Crepis nana
Asteraceae


   
Pine rock-cress
Boechera retrofracta X
Brassicaceae
[Named for Tyge Wittrock Böcher, 1909-1983]
 

Hidden Lake bluecurls
Trichostema austromantanum ssp. compactum
Lamiaceae

  Brewer's monkeyflower
Mimulus breweri
Phrymaceae
[Named for William Henry Brewer, 1828-1910]
 


 
Smallflower bluecurls
Trichostema micranthum
Lamiaceae
  Annual sandwort
Minuartia pusilla
Caryophyllaceae
[Named for Joán Minuart i Parets, 1693-1768]
 


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