Castilleja rubicundula

Cream sacs

Family: Orobanchaceae · Type: annual · Native

Cream sacs is a California native annual wildflower found in mixed montane and subalpine habitats at elevations ranging from 1,500 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces creamy white to pale yellow flowers with distinctive purple-dotted pouches, forming dense inflorescences 5 to 15 centimeters long. Growing with spreading, glandular-hairy stems 20 to 70 centimeters tall, it has an open, branching habit. Its leaves are elongated and lanceolate, typically 20 to 80 millimeters long with occasional narrow lobes. The delicate flowers feature a straight 5 to 7 millimeter beak and lower lip pouches that are 8 to 10 millimeters wide.

California counties: Napa, Lake, San Mateo, Sonoma, Nevada, Amador, Shasta, Marin, Colusa, Alameda

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