Clarkia breweri

Brewer's clarkia

Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.2

Brewer's clarkia is a California native annual found in southeastern San Francisco Bay Mount Hamilton Range and southern Coast Ranges in chaparral and talus habitats at elevations below 1,000 meters. Flowering from April to June, this delicate plant produces pink flowers with distinctive three-lobed petals 15 to 25 millimeters long, each petal slightly longer in the center. Growing with slender decumbent or erect stems less than 20 centimeters tall and glabrous or sparsely puberulent, it has an elegant, compact form. Its leaves are linear to lanceolate, ranging 2 to 5 centimeters long with petioles less than 2 centimeters. The flower's hypanthium is slender and 20 to 35 millimeters long, with sepals ranging from green to magenta.

Habitat: Chaparral, talus, occasionally serpentine

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: < 1000 m

Bioregions: se SnFrB (Mount Hamilton Range), SCoRI.

California counties: Merced, Stanislaus, Santa Clara, San Benito, Alameda, Santa Cruz, Napa, Fresno, Monterey, Sonoma

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