An annual, that has now been self seeded for 3 years, it technically fits the iNaturalist definition of "wild", but this population in Seattle is one I started. I started this "colony" in the crack between a telephone pole and the asphalt of the parking lot of my coffee shop about 3 years ago with a few seeds of Thurston County rock outcrop genetic origin. A favorite species of mine for my guerilla re-wilding (I don't ask the permission of a nominal land "owner"), filling in the cracks of the urbanized landscape with natives adapted to it! There are more dwarfed Collomias in smaller surrounding pavement cracks, that came from the mothers by the telephone pole.

This species is on a list of native species that historically had grown in Seattle, but hadn't been recorded here for decades, when I started with the Thurston outcrop seed in Seattle in various rockeries, and thin soils over pavement, here about 20 years ago. Each time I pass, I pull another alien weed away from the patch, and now that its seeds are sprinkled over the asphalt, I am picking up a few seeds with my wet finger tip each time pass, for my next guerrilla seeding!