Chlorogalum angustifolium

Narrow-leaved soap plant

Family: Agavaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Narrow-leaved soap plant is a California native perennial found in the North Coast Ranges, North Coast Interior, Cache Creek region, northern Sierra Nevada, Sacramento Valley, and Southern California Coast in grassland and woodland at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces white flowers with green-yellow midveins, 8 to 12 millimeters long, arranged on slender branches. Growing 30 to 70 centimeters tall with an ascending branching pattern, it emerges from a small red-brown bulb with delicate fibrous outer layers. Its leaves are distinctively narrow, 2 to 5 millimeters wide with nearly flat margins, emerging from the base of the plant. The fruit is small, measuring 1.5 to 3 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Heavy soils in grassland or woodland

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: < 500 m

Bioregions: NCoRO, NCoRI, CaRF, SNF (esp n&ampc), ScV, SCo

California counties: Tehama, Calaveras, Yuba, Butte, Shasta, Tuolumne, Lake, Mendocino, Merced, Madera, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Solano, Placer, Siskiyou, Sutter, Sacramento, Mariposa, Fresno, Amador, Stanislaus, Santa Barbara, Napa

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