Foothills, montane. Moist meadows, pond edges, openings.  Spring, summer.
Narraguinnep Natural Area, May 18, 2007.

It is easy to walk right over this tiny plant without noticing it, but the plant does often occur in large numbers on barren soils so that does help it attract attention.  I have most often found the plant in old two track roads that traverse recently moist meadows and forest openings. 

Edward Green named this plant Allocarya stipitata in 1887 from a specimen he collected in California in 1883.  Ivan Johnston renamed it Plagiobothrys scouleri in 1923.  The Greek, "plagio", meaning "oblique", and "bothros", meaning "pit", refer to the scar on the nutlet.  John Scouler was a naturalist and physician.  (More biographical information.)

Foothills, montane. Moist meadows, pond edges, openings.  Spring, summer.
Narraguinnep Natural Area, June 18, 2007.

Foothills, montane. Moist meadows, pond edges, openings.  Spring, summer.
Narraguinnep Natural Area, June 18, 2007.