Cicendia quadrangularis

Timwort, Timwort

Family: Gentianaceae · Type: annual · Native

Timwort is a California native annual found in northern coastal, north Coast Ranges, northern Sierra Nevada foothills, Central Valley, and central coastal regions in open places at elevations below 2,700 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces small white to pale flowers less than 10 millimeters long with rounded lobes. Growing with delicate stems less than 9 centimeters tall, the plant can be simple or branched near its base. Its leaves are small, measuring 4 to 9 millimeters long, and range from ovate to lanceolate in shape, positioned along the stem between internodes. The tiny flowers have a hemispheric calyx tube with wide, truncate sinuses between minutely triangular lobes.

Habitat: Open places

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: < 2700 m

Bioregions: NCo, NCoRO, CaRF, n&ampc SNF, GV, CCo

California counties: Tuolumne, San Mateo, Stanislaus, Marin, Butte, Tulare, Sonoma, Sacramento, Contra Costa, Solano, Tehama, Sutter, Shasta, Glenn, Calaveras, Merced, Mendocino, Napa, Humboldt, San Luis Obispo, Alameda, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Mariposa, Madera, Monterey, Yuba, El Dorado

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