Pronunciation: an-AG-al-is MI-ni-ma
Common name: Common chaffweed
Family: Myrsinaceae (Myrsine)
Habitat: Occasional in vernal pools and low damp
places, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, San Diego
Co. and north to British Columbia and Atlantic
coast
Blooming period: April to May
Click for Latin name derivations: 1) Anagallis
2) minima
Formerly Centunculus minimus