Dysphania botrys

Jerusalem oak, Jerusalem Oak

Family: Chenopodiaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Jerusalem oak is a naturalized annual found in disturbed areas throughout California at elevations below 2,100 meters. Flowering from June to October, this plant produces small green flowers in arching clusters along axillary and terminal panicles. Growing 14 to 65 centimeters tall with glandular stems, it has a distinctive branching habit. Its leaves are wavy to pinnately lobed, with blades 3 to 65 millimeters long, ovate to elliptic, and densely covered in short glandular hairs on the underside. The fruit is tiny, approximately 0.5 millimeters in diameter, with a white-blotchy seed wall that appears bumpy and textured.

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Bloom period: Jun-Oct

Elevation: < 2100 m

Bioregions: CA

California counties: Plumas, Los Angeles, Butte, Riverside, El Dorado, Amador, Inyo, Mono, Placer, Alpine, Lassen, Nevada, Sierra, Yuba, Tehama, Shasta, Trinity, Colusa, Glenn, Modoc, Alameda, Sonoma, Siskiyou, Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Santa Barbara, Tulare, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Bernardino, Ventura, Fresno, Mariposa, Santa Clara, Sacramento, Yolo, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Solano, Kern, Lake

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