Camissoniopsis ignota

Jurupa hills sun cup

Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native

Jurupa hills sun cup is a California native annual found in central Sierra Nevada foothills, central western, and southwestern California in clay fields, coastal-sage scrub, chaparral, and mountain slopes at elevations of 100 to 1,100 meters. Flowering from March to August, this plant produces yellow flowers approximately 4.8 to 8 millimeters long. Growing with ascending or erect stems up to 55 centimeters tall that are somewhat fleshy and reddish, it has a rosetted habit with minutely strigose texture. Its narrow leaves are elliptic to ovate, less than 60 millimeters long with finely serrated edges and petioles shorter than 25 millimeters. The fruit is a slender cylindric capsule 20 to 30 millimeters long that dries with four distinct angles and may coil slightly.

Habitat: Generally clay fields, slopes in coastal-sage scrub or chaparral, sandy soils in mountains

Bloom period: Mar-Aug

Elevation: 100-1100 m

Bioregions: c SNF (Madera Co.), GV (uncommon), CW, SW

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