Eremogone macradenia var. arcuifolia

Forest camp sandwort

Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Forest camp sandwort is a California native perennial found in southern Sierra Nevada, Transverse Ranges, and San Gabriel Mountains in dry canyon slopes, yellow-pine and oak forests at elevations of 650 to 2,400 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces white flowers in delicate clusters with slender, downcurved branches. Growing with slender stems 15 to 40 centimeters tall, it forms loose, spreading clumps in rocky, gravelly terrain. Its leaves are notably thin and gracefully curved, measuring just 0.8 to 2 millimeters wide, creating a delicate, architectural form. The plant's sepals are 4.5 to 7 millimeters long, with branches and sepals ranging from nearly smooth to densely glandular-hairy.

Habitat: Dry, often gravelly (decomposing granite) canyon slopes, dry yellow-pine and oak forests, ridges, summits

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 650-2400 m

Bioregions: s SN, WTR, SnGb.

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