Distribution: Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to California, east to Idaho and Utah.
Habitat: Drier open places, from the foothills to middle elevations in the mountains, often where moist to wet in spring.
Flowers: June-August
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Annual
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bees, flies, butterflies
Slender annual up to 2.5 dm. tall, freely branched above, usually glabrous.
Leaves palmately 3- to 7-parted into soft, linear segments up to 1.5 cm. long; or the uppermost entire.
Flowers on long pedicels, borne in the forks and terminating the branches; calyx 2-3 mm. long, equaling the capsule, with prominent translucent intervals between the 5 greener segments; corolla white or occasionally pale blue, glabrous, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, equaling the calyx, cleft halfway to the base, the limb 2.5 mm. wide; filaments equal length, glabrous; style 3-parted; ovary superior.
Capsule with 3, one-seeded carpels.
Publication: Aliso 19(1): 80. 2000.
Linanthus harknessii (Curran) Greene ssp. condensatus H. Mason
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Leptosiphon harknessii in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WA Flora Checklist: Leptosiphon harknessii checklist entry.
OregonFlora: Leptosiphon harknessii information.
E-Flora BC: Leptosiphon harknessii atlas page.
CalPhotos: Leptosiphon harknessii photos.
USDA Plants: Leptosiphon harknessii information.
