Cannabis sativa

Hemp, marijuana, Marijuana

Family: Cannabaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Hemp is a naturalized annual found in the California Floristic Province in disturbed areas at elevations generally below 600 meters. Flowering from June to October, this plant produces small, inconspicuous flowers in dense panicle-like clusters. Growing with erect branched stems up to 4 meters tall, it has distinctive inner bark that is notably fibrous. Its leaves are palmately compound, with lower leaves opposite and containing 3 to 7 narrowly lanceolate leaflets less than 15 centimeters long, coarsely serrated along the edges. The fruit is a small achene 1 to 2 millimeters long, generally enclosed within the persistent perianth.

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Bloom period: Jun-Oct

Elevation: generally < 600 m

Bioregions: CA-FP

California counties: Los Angeles, Kern, San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino, San Joaquin, Riverside, Imperial, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Nevada, Santa Clara, Yolo, Kings, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Butte, Alameda, San Mateo, San Luis Obispo, Lake

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