Distribution: Occurring in the Cascades Range and Blue Mountains in Washington; Washington to California, east to Montana, Colorado and New Mexico.
Habitat: Open rocky slopes at middle to high elevations in the mountains
Flowers: June-August
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bees, flies, butterflies
Sweetly aromatic perennial from a stout, woody taproot and branched crown, the numerous slender, simple stems up to 3 dm. tall.
Leaves sessile, opposite, palmately divided, the principle leaves 5- to 9-cleft into spinulose-tipped linear segments up to 2 cm. long, often with several smaller leaves in the axils.
Flowers sub-sessile in compact, leafy-bracteate clusters terminating the stems; calyx sub-herbaceous, 5-lobed, 6-9 mm. long; corolla creamy white, the slender tube equaling the calyx, the flaring limbs about 1 cm. wide; stamens 5, equally inserted; style 3-parted; ovary superior.
Capsule with 3 carpels; usually only 1 of the 2-4 seeds maturing in each carpel.
Publication: Aliso 19(1): 81. 2000.
Leptodactylon nuttallii (A. Gray) Rydb.
Linanthastrum nuttallii (A. Gray) Ewan [HC, IMF4]
Linanthus nuttallii (A. Gray) Greene ex Milliken
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ssp. nuttallii – Nuttall's leptosiphon
Occurring in the Cascades Range and Blue Mountains in Washington, except in the Wenatchee Mountains; Washington to California, east to Montana, Colorado and New Mexico. -
ssp. pubescens – Nuttall's leptosiphon Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington, where disjunct in the Wenatchee Mountains; Sierra Mountains of California to Nevada.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Leptosiphon nuttallii in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Leptosiphon nuttallii checklist entry
OregonFlora: Leptosiphon nuttallii information
E-Flora BC: Leptosiphon nuttallii atlas page
CalPhotos: Leptosiphon nuttallii photos
