How surprising! I have seen Amsinckias, but I did not recognize that
flower as one, I guess because the 'curl' to the stem doesn't show.
I've now searched calphotos, which has pictures of A.menziesii
intermedia which shows red marks like the one in the Triteleia photo.
I checked the map showing all the California counties it has been
collected from
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/…
and it is amazingly widespread. Every country except Plumas and
Alpine have contributed pressed specimens to herbaria, and that may
not mean that it doesn't grow in them as well.
I found a second one also with red marks: eastwoodiae, but at a quick
glance, it is found in only about half of California's counties.
Diane
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