Epilobium canum subsp. canum

Family: Onagraceae · Type: perennial · Native

California fuchsia is a California native perennial found in the California Floristic Province (excluding northern Sierra Nevada) on dry slopes and ridges at elevations up to 2,100 meters. Flowering from June to December, this plant produces vibrant red to orange-red tubular flowers in showy clusters. Growing with erect or spreading stems 20 to 120 centimeters tall, covered in stiff spreading hairs that give the plant a grayish appearance. Its narrow leaves are often clustered, linear to lanceolate, typically gray-green and nearly entire or with minimal teeth. The plant forms a low, somewhat woody base with multiple stems spreading from a central point.

Habitat: dry slopes, ridges

Bloom period: Jun-Dec

Elevation: < 2100 m

Bioregions: CA-FP (exc n SNH)

California counties: Ventura, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Orange, San Luis Obispo, San Bernardino, San Diego, Monterey, San Benito, Riverside, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Solano, Contra Costa, Napa, Stanislaus, Alameda, Yolo, Kern, Tulare, Fresno, Santa Cruz, Placer, Sacramento, Marin, Sonoma, Alpine, Kings, Merced, Lake, Tuolumne, Humboldt, Mariposa, Butte

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