Drymocallis glandulosa var. reflexa

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, southern Channel Islands, San Bernardino Mountains, and Peninsular Ranges in moist or partially shaded places at elevations of 450 to 2,600 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces bright yellow flowers 3 to 4 millimeters wide with narrow-obovate petals. Growing with erect stems 15 to 80 centimeters tall that spread in a distinctive branching pattern, it forms an open, airy clump. Its compound leaves have 3 pairs of lateral leaflets with a terminal leaflet 15 to 40 millimeters long, each leaflet featuring double-serrated edges with 6 to 16 teeth per side. The plant's delicate flower clusters have spreading branches with pedicels 2 to 10 millimeters long, creating an elegant, open-branched appearance.

Habitat: Moist or +- shaded places

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 450-2600 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, SNH, SnGb, SnBr, PR

California counties: San Bernardino, Kern, Madera, Ventura, Siskiyou, Los Angeles, Tuolumne, Tulare, Plumas, Tehama, Fresno, Riverside, Humboldt, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Mariposa, Calaveras, Modoc, Mono, Sierra, El Dorado, Lake, Placer, Napa, Amador, Del Norte, Lassen, Shasta, Sonoma, Sutter, Butte, Glenn, Nevada, Mendocino, Trinity, Yuba, Orange

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