Epilobium septentrionale

Humboldt county fuchsia, Humboldt County Fuchsia

Family: Onagraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Humboldt county fuchsia is a California native perennial ranked 4.3 by CNPS, found in northern coastal California bioregions including North Coast and North Coast Ranges on dry, sandy or rocky serpentine slopes at elevations of 20 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces distinctive red-orange flowers 8 to 14 millimeters long with a white-canescent appearance. Growing as a low, matted herb 5 to 20 centimeters tall with a wiry, somewhat woody base, it spreads in dense clusters with scaly lower stems. Its leaves are generally opposite, lanceolate to ovate, 10 to 25 millimeters long, covered in white-canescent hair and appearing soft and pale green. The fruit is 20 to 26 millimeters long with a short beak and hairy surface.

Habitat: Dry, sandy or rocky ledges (serpentine slopes)

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: 20-1900 m

Bioregions: NCo, NCoRO.

California counties: Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino, Yuba, Siskiyou

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