Epilobium canum

California fuchsia, zauschneria, Zauschneria

Family: Onagraceae · Type: perennial · Native

California fuchsia is a California native perennial found in diverse bioregions in rocky, sunny habitats from low to mid-elevation areas. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces brilliant red-orange tubular flowers 7 to 15 millimeters long that attract hummingbirds and pollinators. Growing in clumped formations with erect to spreading stems 30 to 60 centimeters tall, it develops woody bases and spreads through basal scaly shoots. Its leaves are linear to widely ovate, ranging 8 to 70 millimeters long, with margins that can be nearly entire or strongly toothed, presenting a variable green to grayish appearance. The fruit is a slender, hairy capsule 15 to 30 millimeters long, which develops after the vibrant flowering period.

California counties: San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Riverside, Sonoma, Orange, San Diego, Monterey, Ventura, Kern, Imperial, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Tulare, Inyo, Placer, El Dorado, San Mateo, Alameda, Marin, Contra Costa, Nevada, Yolo, Mendocino, Napa, San Benito, Sierra, Del Norte, Tuolumne, San Luis Obispo, Plumas, Mariposa, Shasta, Kings, Solano, Colusa, Sacramento, Santa Cruz

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