Claytonia perfoliata

Rooreh

Family: Montiaceae · Type: annual · Native

Rooreh is a California native annual herb found throughout California's coastal, central, and northern regions in a variety of habitats from sea level to mountain areas. Flowering from February to May, this plant produces delicate white to pale pink flowers 2 to 6 millimeters long in small clusters. Growing with spreading to erect stems 1 to 40 centimeters tall, it develops distinctive round, fused cauline leaves that form a unique disk-like structure up to 10 centimeters in diameter. Its basal leaves are elliptic to kidney-shaped, measuring up to 4 centimeters long with rounded or slightly pointed tips. The tiny seeds are shiny and smooth, measuring 1.2 to 2.7 millimeters in size.

California counties: Orange, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Riverside, Kern, Tuolumne, San Diego, San Bernardino, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, Fresno, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Butte, Alameda, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mariposa, Merced, Monterey, Sacramento, San Benito, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Siskiyou, Sonoma, Sutter, Trinity, Tulare, Nevada, Napa, Placer, Amador, Yolo, Sierra, Shasta, Alpine, Calaveras, El Dorado, Inyo, Mendocino, Mono, Madera, Plumas, Solano, Glenn, Modoc, Tehama, Stanislaus, Colusa, Del Norte, Yuba, Kings

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