Circaea alpina subsp. pacifica

Family: Onagraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Circaea alpina subsp. pacifica is a California native perennial found in northwestern California, the Cascade Range, northern Sierra Nevada Forests, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco Bay Area, San Bernardino Mountains, and Warner Mountains in cool, moist conifer forests at elevations below 2,700 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces delicate white flowers with small petals 1 to 1.5 millimeters long. Growing with slender, erect stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall that are densely covered in stiff, short hairs, it forms simple, upright stems. Its leaves are ovate to nearly round, 3 to 11 centimeters long, with rounded or slightly heart-shaped bases and sharp tips. The small fruits are approximately 2 millimeters long and develop from the plant's erect, glandular racemes.

Habitat: Cool, moist, conifer forest

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: < 2700 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR, n SNF, SNH, SnFrB, SnBr, Wrn

California counties: Humboldt, Nevada, Tuolumne, Placer, Butte, San Bernardino, Trinity, Mariposa, Fresno, Marin, Siskiyou, Plumas, Mendocino, Tulare, El Dorado, Calaveras, Sonoma, Modoc, Shasta, Kern, Mono, Sierra, Alpine, Madera, Tehama, Glenn, Amador, Del Norte

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