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Navarretia squarrosa

Te Awa Kairangi / Hutt River north of Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 04/01/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Diamond Lake, Wanaka.<br>Photographer: John Barkla, Date taken: 01/03/2013, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

Californian stinkweed

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Flower colours

Blue, Violet/Purple

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Polemoniaceae

Authority

Navarretia squarrosa (Eschsch.) Hook. et Arn.

Ecology

Flowering

November, December, January, February, March, April.

Year naturalised

1871

Origin

W. North America

Reason for introduction

Unknown.

Other information

Etymology

squarrosa: Rough, with scale-like projections; from the Latin squarrosus; leaves and leaf stalks

NVS code

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