Camissoniopsis intermedia

Intermediate sun cups

Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native

Intermediate sun cups is a California native annual found in northwestern, central western, and southwestern California on shrubby slopes, especially in burned areas, at elevations of 300 to 800 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces yellow flowers with small basal spots, about 1.5 to 3.5 millimeters long. Growing with nearly erect stems up to 60 centimeters tall, it forms a distinctive rosette with dense spreading hairs. Its leaves are lance-shaped to narrow oval, 10 to 120 millimeters long, with minute teeth and growing nearly sessile along the stem. The fruit is a cylindrical capsule 13 to 25 millimeters long that dries with four somewhat angular sides.

Habitat: shrubby slopes, especially burns

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: 300-800 m

Bioregions: NW, CW, SW

California counties: San Luis Obispo, San Bernardino, Ventura, Contra Costa, Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles, Monterey, Glenn, Santa Barbara, San Benito, Stanislaus, Santa Clara, Shasta, Yolo, Fresno, Napa, Alameda, San Diego, Solano, Lake, Colusa, Sonoma, Santa Cruz

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