Aloe ×schoenlandii

Family: Asphodelaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Aloe schoenlandii is a naturalized perennial found in southern California coastal regions, including La Jolla and San Diego County, in coastal-sage scrub habitat at elevations below 100 meters. Flowering in April, this plant produces red flowers in dense raceme-like clusters with 5 to 10 branches, each containing 25 to 90 flowers. Growing with erect to decumbent stems 0.5 to 9 decimeters tall that are loosely clustered and branched, it forms distinctive clumps. Its leaves are large and triangular-ovate, 2 to 2.5 decimeters long, pale green with white spots and a bluish-gray (glaucous) appearance. The fruit is oblong, brown, and 2 to 3.5 centimeters long, containing small sterile seeds.

Habitat: Coastal-sage scrub

Bloom period: Apr

Elevation: < 100 m

Bioregions: SCo (La Jolla, San Diego Co.)

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