Boechera repanda

Yosemite rockcress

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 3.3

Yosemite rockcress is a California native perennial found in northern Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, eastern Western Transverse Ranges, southern California mountain ranges in rock outcrops, talus, and gravelly meadows at elevations of 1,400 to 3,600 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces small white flowers approximately 3.5 to 6 millimeters long in compact clusters. Growing with slender stems 20 to 90 centimeters tall, it develops from a rosette with branched, multi-rayed hairs along its lower stem. Its basal leaves are notably wide, 7 to 50 millimeters across, with wavy or coarsely toothed margins and covered in short multi-rayed hairs. The fruit is an elongated silique 3.5 to 13.5 centimeters long, often erect to slightly spreading.

Habitat: rock outcrops, talus, gravelly soil in meadows, open pine forest

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 1400-3600 m

Bioregions: NCoRH, SNH, e WTR, SnGb, SnBr, SnJt

California counties: Fresno, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Kern, Inyo, Tulare, Glenn, Tehama, Mono, Lassen, Plumas, Mariposa, Madera, El Dorado, Nevada, Tuolumne, Riverside, Siskiyou, Ventura, Colusa, Mendocino, Lake, Santa Barbara, Alpine

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