Elegant Clarkia is a showy native annual of the California Coast Range, producing masses of lavender to pink four-petaled flowers with distinctive clawed petals. It blooms in spring and early summer in chaparral, grassland openings, and dry slopes. It is an important nectar plant for native bees and specialist Clarkia bees collect its pollen.
Habitat
Chaparral, grassland openings, and dry slopes in the California Coast Range
Diet
Pollen collected by specialist Clarkia bees; nectar for many native bees
How common
Common
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