Chamaesaracha arida

Green-leaf five-eyes

Family: Solanaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Green-leaf five-eyes is a California native perennial found in the eastern Desert Mountains, specifically the New York Mountains, on dry clay soil at approximately 1,500 meters elevation. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces white to greenish-purple flowers with delicate yellow, dull purple, or brown midstripes. Growing with prostrate to ascending stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall, it has subglabrous herbage with scattered minute hairs. Its leaves are subsessile, 20 to 65 millimeters long, varying from linear to narrowly lanceolate with margins that are nearly entire or sometimes deeply lobed. The fruit is a round capsule 4 to 8 millimeters in diameter.

Habitat: Dry, clay soil

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: +- 1500 m.

Bioregions: e DMtns (New York Mtns)

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