Epilobium clavatum
Club fruit willowherb
Family: Onagraceae · Type: perennial · Native
Club fruit willowherb is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern California Ranges, and northern Sierra Nevada Mountains in subalpine scree and rocky streambanks at elevations of 1,200 to 4,200 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces rose-purple to pink flowers with distinctive club-like stigmas. Growing with ascending stems less than 22 centimeters tall, it forms clustered bunches with wiry, leafy stolons. Its leaves are small, 8 to 28 millimeters long, ovate to nearly elliptic with short or absent petioles. The fruit is 17 to 40 millimeters long and generally sparsely hairy, giving the plant its distinctive "club fruit" name.
Habitat: Subalpine scree, rocky streambanks
Bloom period: Jun-Sep
Elevation: 1200-4200 m
Bioregions: KR, CaRH, n&c SNH, Wrn
California counties: Mono, Siskiyou, Trinity, Modoc, Alpine, Madera, Nevada
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.