Drymocallis glandulosa var. glandulosa

Sticky cinquefoil

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Sticky cinquefoil is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, Sutter Buttes, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and Modoc Plateau in generally shady or moist areas at elevations of 400 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces pale yellow to cream flowers in small clusters with petals 3.5 to 5 millimeters wide. Growing with stems 20 to 60 centimeters tall, it forms an open, spreading growth pattern with branch angles between 30 and 55 degrees. Its compound basal leaves have 2 to 3 pairs of lateral leaflets and a terminal leaflet 25 to 55 millimeters long, with double-toothed edges featuring 7 to 15 teeth on each side. The flower hypanthium has small bractlets 2.5 to 6 millimeters long, with sepals spreading and widely obtuse.

Habitat: Generally +- shady or moist areas

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: generally 400-2000 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoR, CaR, SN, ScV (Sutter Buttes), TR, PR, MP

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

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