Photo 3834987, (c) Gena Bentall, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Gena Bentall

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What

Honey-scented Pincushion Plant (Navarretia mellita)

Observer

gbentall

Date

May 27, 2016 03:39 PM PDT

Description

This one stood out from a cluster N. hamata. Bracts do not have the down/turned spine at the tip and seem more clustered. I am hoping this might be N.atractyloides which is on the CNPS list for the park, but I've never found. The bracts don't seem to have the distinctive 3 prong of most of the CalPhotos images. Leaves had a pleasant fragrance--no skunk odor. Is this just a stunted N. hamata @polemoniaceae?

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