Eremogone ferrisiae
Ferris' sandwort, Ferris' Sandwort
Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Ferris' sandwort is a California native perennial found in central Sierra Nevada Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, and Sierra Nevada east of the Sierra Nevada at elevations of 1,450 to 2,900 meters in pine and oak woodlands on granitic alluvium. Flowering from April to August, this plant produces white flowers in open terminal cymes with many delicate blooms. Growing with tufted green stems 20 to 40 centimeters tall that are glabrous to glandular-hairy, it forms compact clusters in rocky mountain terrain. Its narrow leaves are spine-tipped, measuring 20 to 60 millimeters long and less than one millimeter wide, with a single prominent vein. The small reddish-brown to nearly black seeds are compressed and feature low, rounded tubercles.
Habitat: Pine, oak woodland, granitic alluvium on foothills, mountain slopes
Bloom period: Apr-Aug
Elevation: 1450-2900 m
Bioregions: c&s SNH, SnJt, SNE
California counties: Inyo, Kern, Mono, Riverside, Butte, Tulare, San Bernardino
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