Eremothera boothii subsp. condensata

Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native

Booth's evening-primrose is a California native annual found in the desert bioregion in sandy slopes, washes, and desert scrub at elevations of -70 to 1,200 meters. Flowering from February to May, this plant produces yellow-white flowers with inconspicuous bracts in an inflorescence that is minutely strigose or glandular-hairy. Growing 5 to 20 centimeters tall with a well-developed basal rosette, it has a stout and nearly glabrous stem. Its leaves are 25 to 100 millimeters long, generally lanceolate to oblanceolate, and range from nearly entire to minutely dentate. The fruit is curved outward and 2 to 3.8 millimeters wide.

Habitat: Sandy slopes, washes, desert scrub

Bloom period: Feb-May

Elevation: -70-1200 m

Bioregions: D

California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo, Imperial, Riverside, San Diego, Kern

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