Boykinia major

Large boykinia

Family: Saxifragaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Large boykinia is a California native perennial found in the northern Klamath Ranges, northern North Coast Ranges, and northern Sierra Nevada Mountains in shaded, moist meadows and streambanks at elevations below 2,500 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces white flowers in flat-topped clusters with petals 5 to 7 millimeters long. Growing with stout stems 20 to 130 centimeters tall, it develops distinctive leaf stipules up to 1 centimeter long with sharp-tipped edges. Its leaves are large, typically 9 to 50 centimeters long, divided more than halfway to the base with relatively straight-sided lobes and teeth. The plant's leaf blades are less than 20 centimeters wide, with prominent petioles ranging from 5 to 35 centimeters in length.

Habitat: Shaded, moist meadows, streambanks

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: < 2500 m

Bioregions: KR, n NCoRO (Grouse Mtn), n&ampc SNH

California counties: Madera, El Dorado, Siskiyou, Calaveras, Butte, Del Norte, Trinity, Placer, Humboldt, Mariposa, Shasta, Plumas, Nevada, Tuolumne, Sierra, Lassen

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