Boechera acutina

Pointed rockcress

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Pointed rockcress is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges in gravelly slopes, meadows, and open forests at elevations of 1,200 to 2,250 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces white to lavender flowers 5 to 7 millimeters long with delicate petals. Growing with slender stems 15 to 60 centimeters tall, it emerges from a short-lived basal rosette with branched hairs near the base. Its basal leaves are 1.5 to 6 millimeters wide, entire or minutely dentate, with short-stalked 3 to 5-rayed hairs. The fruit develops as an ascending silique 2.5 to 7.5 centimeters long, containing 46 to 100 seeds in a single row.

Habitat: Gravelly slopes, in meadows, open forest

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 1200-2250 m

Bioregions: KR

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.