Enemion stipitatum

Siskiyou rue-anemone

Family: Ranunculaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Siskiyou rue-anemone is a California native perennial found in northwestern California, the Cascade Range, northern Sierra Nevada, southeastern San Francisco Bay Area (Mount Hamilton Range), and the Modoc Plateau in shaded slopes, chaparral, oak woodland, and mixed-evergreen forest at elevations of 200 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from February to April, this plant produces delicate white flowers with white sepals 1 to 2.5 millimeters wide. Growing 4 to 12 centimeters tall with (1)3 to 7 stems that are decumbent to erect and generally simple. Its leaves span 4 to 11 centimeters with segment lobes typically divided into 3 parts, where each lobe is generally more than half the segment's length. The fruit develops 4 to 7 millimeters long, with 3 to 10 pistils present in each flower.

Habitat: Shaded slopes, chaparral, oak woodland, mixed-evergreen forest

Bloom period: Feb-Apr

Elevation: 200-1500 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR, n SN, se SnFrB (Mount Hamilton Range), MP

California counties: Humboldt, Modoc, Alameda, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Glenn, Trinity, El Dorado

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