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Tracy's Mistmaiden
Romanzoffia tracyi
  
About Tracy's Mistmaiden (Romanzoffia tracyi) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant Romanzoffia tracyi is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common names Tracy's mistmaiden and Tracy's romanzoffia. It is native to the coastline of western North America from far northern California north to the southern tip of Vancouver Island, where it grows among rocks on oceanside bluffs. It is a tufted plant reaching no more than about 12 centimeters tall, its herbage growing from a network of hairy brown tubers. The leaves have rounded blades notched into lobes along the edges, borne on petioles which may be several centimeters long. The inflorescence is short cyme of funnel-shaped flowers each just under a centimeter long. The flower has a yellow-throated white corolla set in a calyx of narrow, pointed sepals.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Perennial herb

Size
Size
2.4 - 4.8 in tall

Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Full Sun

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Rocky ocean bluffs

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 27.4" - 92.0", Summer Precipitation: 0.37" - 2.49", Coldest Month: 41.0" - 48.6", Hottest Month: 55.6" - 67.9", Humidity: 0.34" - 15.70", Elevation: 14" - 872"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Tracy's Romanzoffia


Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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