About Navarretia divaricata (Torr. ex A.Gray) Greene
Navarretia divaricata is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family, with the common names mountain navarretia and divaricate navarretia. It is native to western North America, ranging from British Columbia to Montana to California, where it grows in open habitat types. It is a hairy, glandular annual herb that grows a stem with paired or whorled purple-brown branches, reaching no more than roughly 10 centimeters in total height. Its leaves are divided into threadlike lobes. The inflorescence forms a rounded head filled with leaflike green bracts that are deeply divided into long, narrow, pointed lobes. Small flowers, ranging from pink-tinged white to dark blue, grow tucked between these spine-lobed bracts.
