Five Spot
Five Spot, Nemophila maculata, is an annual herb endemic to California, growing in the Sierra Nevada, Sacramento Valley, and California Coast Ranges in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Named for the five distinctive purple spots adorning each white petal tip, this charming member of the borage family produces bowl-shaped flowers up to 5 centimeters wide that bloom in early spring. The striking purple spots serve as visual signals to attract its primary pollinators, which are solitary bees, though butterflies and other insects also visit for nectar.
Five Spot serves as a larval host plant for many moths and the funereal duskywing butterfly, Erynnis funeralis, providing crucial early-season resources when few other native plants are blooming. The plant has special value to native bees and readily self-sows.
Each print is made by the artist using archival quality pigment ink on Moab's Entrada Rag Bright 300 paper.
Five Spot, Nemophila maculata, is an annual herb endemic to California, growing in the Sierra Nevada, Sacramento Valley, and California Coast Ranges in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Named for the five distinctive purple spots adorning each white petal tip, this charming member of the borage family produces bowl-shaped flowers up to 5 centimeters wide that bloom in early spring. The striking purple spots serve as visual signals to attract its primary pollinators, which are solitary bees, though butterflies and other insects also visit for nectar.
Five Spot serves as a larval host plant for many moths and the funereal duskywing butterfly, Erynnis funeralis, providing crucial early-season resources when few other native plants are blooming. The plant has special value to native bees and readily self-sows.
Each print is made by the artist using archival quality pigment ink on Moab's Entrada Rag Bright 300 paper.
Five Spot, Nemophila maculata, is an annual herb endemic to California, growing in the Sierra Nevada, Sacramento Valley, and California Coast Ranges in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Named for the five distinctive purple spots adorning each white petal tip, this charming member of the borage family produces bowl-shaped flowers up to 5 centimeters wide that bloom in early spring. The striking purple spots serve as visual signals to attract its primary pollinators, which are solitary bees, though butterflies and other insects also visit for nectar.
Five Spot serves as a larval host plant for many moths and the funereal duskywing butterfly, Erynnis funeralis, providing crucial early-season resources when few other native plants are blooming. The plant has special value to native bees and readily self-sows.
Each print is made by the artist using archival quality pigment ink on Moab's Entrada Rag Bright 300 paper.
