Lastarriaea coriacea (Goodman) Hoover

Lastarriaea coriacea grows along the coast from Sonoma County to San Diego County, and in the foothills and mountains from Calaveras County to western Riverside County.

Plants 0.2-1.5 × 0.5-3(-5) dm. Leaf blades 0.5-3 cm × 0.2-0.8(-1) mm. Inflorescences yellowish green to green or red; bracts erect or nearly so, narrowly lanceolate, 0.4-1.5(-2) cm × 0.8-1.5(-2) mm; awns uncinate, (0.5-)1-2(-2.5) mm. Involucral bracts erect, linear, 0.3-1(-1.2) cm × 0.3-1 mm; awns uncinate, 0.5-2 mm. Flowers: perianth 2-3.5 mm (including awns); tepals connate ca. 3 their length, narrowly lanceolate; filaments 0.5-1 mm; anthers 0.2-0.3 mm. Achenes 2.5-3 mm. 2n = 42, 60.

Calif.; Mexico (Baja California).

Flowering Feb-Jun.

Sandy to gravelly soils in coastal and inland grassland, coastal scrub and chaparral communities, pine-oak woodlands; 0-800m.

Chorizanthe coriacea Goodman, Leafl. W. Bot. 3: 230. 1943; Lastarriaea chilensis J. Rémy subsp. californica H. Gross, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 49: 345. 1913, not Chorizanthe californica (Bentham) A. Gray; C. lastarriaea Parry var. californica (H. Gross) Goodman