Cypselea humifusa

Panal

Family: Aizoaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Panal is a naturalized perennial found in northern Coast Ranges, Great Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, southern Coast Ranges, and Peninsular Ranges in seasonally dry wetland margins at elevations below 1,500 meters. Flowering from July to October, this plant produces small greenish-white flowers approximately 2 millimeters in diameter with white-margined sepals. Growing in low-spreading mats less than 2 centimeters wide with slender, diffuse-branched stems, it forms delicate ground-covering formations. Its leaves grow in unequal pairs with blades 5 to 10 millimeters long, elliptic and obtuse, positioned alternately along slender stems. The tiny fruit is nearly spherical, approximately 1.5 millimeters in diameter with thin walls encasing a smooth, round-reniform brown seed.

Habitat: Uncommon. Seasonally dry margins of wetlands

Bloom period: Jul-Oct

Elevation: < 1500 m

Bioregions: NCoR, GV, SnFrB, SCoR, PR

California counties: Glenn, San Diego, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, Marin, Lake, Tehama, San Joaquin, Mendocino, San Mateo, Kings, Napa, Colusa, Calaveras, Amador, Butte, Contra Costa, Stanislaus

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