Bowlesia incana

Hoary bowlesia

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Hoary bowlesia is a California native perennial found in the northern Coast Ranges, central Sierra Nevada foothills, San Joaquin Valley, central western California, southwestern California, and eastern Mojave Desert in shaded areas beneath trees, rocks, and shrubs at elevations below 1,400 meters. Flowering from March to April, this plant produces small yellow-green flowers in delicate axillary clusters. Growing with slender stems 0.5 to 6 decimeters tall, it spreads in low, sprawling formations. Its leaves are generally opposite with round to kidney-shaped blades 0.5 to 3 centimeters wide, featuring 5 to 9 widely lanceolate lobes that extend approximately halfway to the base. The fruit is a small, inflated ovoid structure 1.5 to 2 millimeters long.

Habitat: Shade of trees, rocks, shrubs

Bloom period: Mar-Apr

Elevation: < 1400 m

Bioregions: NCoRI, c&amps SNF, SnJV, CW, SW, DMoj

California counties: Riverside, Kern, Tulare, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Monterey, San Mateo, San Diego, Alameda, Orange, Santa Barbara, Fresno, Ventura, Contra Costa, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Benito, Madera, Marin, Stanislaus, Mariposa, Calaveras, Glenn, Sonoma, Humboldt, San Joaquin, Amador, Santa Cruz, Merced, Lake, Alpine

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