Duration: Annual. Nativity: Native. Lifeform: Forb/Herb. General: Delicate upright, annual 1-30 cm tall, with a clustered stem. Leaves: Basal, with blades 5-20 mm long, sessile, blades lanceolate, glabrous to pubescent. Flowers: Inflorescence with lanceolate to linear-lanceolate bracts; white or pink flowers; calyx 2.7-4.7 mm long, glabrous or with occasional white or reddish-brown hairs, the lobes shorter than or barely equaling tube; corolla longer than or equal to the calyx. Fruits: Valvate capsule. Ecology: Found on gravelly stream beds, in moist ground of springs or meadows, mountain parks, or open coniferous forests from 5,000-12,000 ft (1524-3658 m); flowers April-September. Notes: Told apart from A. occidentalis by the lanceolate to linear-lanceolate involucral bracts, and the corolla being longer than the calyx. The former is also found at all the lower elevation from 1000-8000 ft (305-2438 m). Ethnobotany: Taken for internal pain, as a life medicine, for venereal disease, as protection from witches, and sometimes steeped to make a beverage. Etymology: Androsace from Green name for sea-plant from Greek andros, a man, male and sakos, a shield, while septentrionalis means or or pertaining to the north.

Santa Catalina Mountains
Turkey Run
Location: Base of green water tank.
6/1/17

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