Clinopodium chandleri

San miguel savory, San Miguel Savory

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

San miguel savory is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native shrub found in the Peninsular Ranges in rocky chaparral slopes at elevations below 1,100 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces white to lavender flowers in small clusters of 1 to 6 blooms, each flower approximately 4 to 7 millimeters long. Growing as a compact, erect shrub less than 0.5 meters tall with red-brown woody stems covered in white recurved hairs, it presents a delicate structural form. Its leaves are small, 5 to 15 millimeters long and 4 to 16 millimeters wide, with a deltate to ovate-deltate shape and shallow crenate-dentate edges, covered in short white hairs. The fruit is tiny, approximately 1.5 millimeters long with a shiny dark brown surface that appears subtly net-like.

Habitat: Rocky slopes, chaparral

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: < 1100 m

Bioregions: PR

California counties: Orange, San Diego, Riverside

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