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Lasthenia californica has a bioregional distribution that includes the California Floristic Province,California's western Mojave Desert, southwest Oregon, Arizona and parts of New Mexico. All occurrences are at elevations less than 1500 meters.
With a common name of California goldfields, this abundant annual achieves a height of less than 40 centimeters, with a more or less hairy stem that may be simple or freely branched. The hairy linear to oblanceolate leaves measure eight to 70 millimeters; these entire leaves are somewhat fleshy in coastal occurrences. The Inflorescence is bell-shaped or hemispheric.
