Navarretia intertexta is a species of flowering plant in the family phlox, known by the common name needleleaf pincushionplant.

It grows in a variety of habitat types, including moist meadows and vernal pools.

It is a hairy annual herb growing up to about 28 centimeters long, growing erect or spreading wider than tall.

The inflorescence is a head of flowers lined with leaflike bracts with needle-shaped lobes, and often with a coat of dense hairs.

The flowers are white to blue and tubular in shape.