Eremogone kingii var. glabrescens

King's sandwort, King's Sandwort

Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

King's sandwort is a California native perennial found in the high Sierra Nevada, northern Sierra Nevada, eastern Sierra Nevada, and San Bernardino Mountains on rocky slopes, summits, and canyon floors at elevations of 2,100 to 4,050 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces white flowers in small clusters with delicate petals 4 to 7 millimeters long. Growing in tufted or funnel-shaped clusters with stems 1 to 20 centimeters tall, the plant has a delicate, glandular-hairy appearance. Its thin, sharp-pointed leaves are 3 to 20 millimeters long and less than 1.2 millimeters wide, with a single prominent vein. The fruit contains 2 to 5 seeds that are elliptic-oblong and range from red-brown to dark purple or black.

Habitat: Rocky slopes, summits, canyon floors

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 2100-4050 m

Bioregions: CaRH, SNH, SNE, DMtns (San Bernardino Co.)

California counties: Inyo, San Bernardino, Mono, El Dorado, Ventura, Amador, Butte, Fresno, Shasta, Madera, Tuolumne, Sierra, Alpine, Mariposa, Nevada, Plumas, Tulare, Lassen, Placer, Siskiyou

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