Camissoniopsis confusa

San bernardino sun cup

Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native

San bernardino sun cup is a California native annual found in southwestern California in dry inland chaparral slopes at elevations of 300 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces pale yellow flowers with small basal spots, approximately 5 to 10 millimeters long. Growing with robust, erect stems up to 60 centimeters tall and covered in dense spreading gray hairs, it forms a distinctive rosette-like growth pattern. Its leaves are lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 10 to 50 millimeters long, with minutely dentate edges and nearly sessile attachment. The elongated fruit is cylindrical, 13 to 23 millimeters long, often drying with four distinct angles and typically one to two coils.

Habitat: dry inland slopes, generally chaparral

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: 300-2000 m

Bioregions: SW.

California counties: San Bernardino, Ventura, Kern, Riverside, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara

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