Epilobium campestre

Smooth boisduvalia

Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native

Smooth boisduvalia is a California native annual found in the California Floristic Province and Modoc Plateau in vernal pools and clay mud flats at elevations of 30 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from May to September, this plant produces delicate pink flowers 1 to 3.2 millimeters long with a distinctive club-like stigma. Growing 10 to 55 centimeters tall with a taproot and decumbent basal branches, it has a glabrous lower stem that becomes minutely hairy toward the top. Its leaves are primarily lanceolate, 8 to 35 millimeters long, with opposite orientation only near the base of the plant. The fruit is a tough cylindric capsule 3.5 to 8 millimeters long, with the proximal half remaining mostly closed.

Habitat: Vernal pools, clay mud flats

Bloom period: May-Sep

Elevation: 30-3000 m

Bioregions: CA-FP (exc ChI, e TR), MP

California counties: Modoc, Lassen, Lake, Los Angeles, Butte, Riverside, Ventura, Contra Costa, San Diego, Sacramento, Solano, Yolo, Sonoma, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Plumas, Shasta, Tehama, Sutter, Glenn, Merced, Sierra, Yuba, Tulare, Fresno, Santa Clara, Humboldt, Stanislaus, Madera, Mendocino, Alameda, Napa, Nevada, San Joaquin, Colusa, San Benito, Santa Barbara, Kern, Placer

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