Seaside fiddleneck • Amsinckia spectabilis
{Amsinckia = after Wilhelm Amsinck, a 19th century patron of the Hamburg Botanical Garden}
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Seaside fiddleneck found growing on West Beach, Calvert Island. Photos by Christina Munck (bottom right) and Kelly Fretwell.
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Identification
Seaside fiddleneck is an annual. It grows upright or sprawling with 40 cm long hairy stems. Its alternating leaves are approximately lance-shaped and finely but irregularly toothed. Its yellow flowers are small, tube-shaped, and grow in clusters. See CalPhotos for more images of this species.
Habitat & Range
Seaside fiddleneck grows along sandy coastal shorelines. It grows in scattered locations from Haida Gwaii south to California. In British Columbia it is mostly known from Haida Gwaii, Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and the adjacent mainland.
iNaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/60984-Amsinckia-spectabilis-spectabilis
Seaside fiddleneck is an annual. It grows upright or sprawling with 40 cm long hairy stems. Its alternating leaves are approximately lance-shaped and finely but irregularly toothed. Its yellow flowers are small, tube-shaped, and grow in clusters. See CalPhotos for more images of this species.
Habitat & Range
Seaside fiddleneck grows along sandy coastal shorelines. It grows in scattered locations from Haida Gwaii south to California. In British Columbia it is mostly known from Haida Gwaii, Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and the adjacent mainland.
iNaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/60984-Amsinckia-spectabilis-spectabilis
References
Amsinckia spectabilis Fisch. & C.A. Mey. In Klinkenberg, Brian. (Ed.). E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Accessed 02/02/2015.
Pojar, J. and MacKinnon, A. (1994). Plants of Coastal British Columbia. Vancouver, BC: Lone Pine Publishing. P. 240.
Authors and editors of page
Kelly Fretwell and Brian Starzomski (2015).
Amsinckia spectabilis Fisch. & C.A. Mey. In Klinkenberg, Brian. (Ed.). E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Accessed 02/02/2015.
Pojar, J. and MacKinnon, A. (1994). Plants of Coastal British Columbia. Vancouver, BC: Lone Pine Publishing. P. 240.
Authors and editors of page
Kelly Fretwell and Brian Starzomski (2015).
