Eremothera boothii subsp. desertorum

Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native

Eremothera boothii subspecies desertorum is a California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada, southern Sierra Nevada eastern slope, and Mojave Desert regions in sandy or gravelly slopes within creosote-bush scrub at elevations of 450 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces delicate white to pale yellow flowers in slender inflorescences with inconspicuous bracts. Growing with thin stems 10 to 35 centimeters tall, it forms a well-developed basal rosette covered in sparse, minute strigose hairs. Its leaves range from 10 to 40 millimeters long, typically lanceolate to narrowly ovate, with some lower leaves oblanceolate and edges ranging from entire to minutely dentate. The fruit is slightly curved, measuring 1 to 1.6 millimeters wide and typically bending downward.

Habitat: Sandy or gravelly slopes, washes, generally creosote-bush scrub

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: 450-2000 m

Bioregions: s SNH, s SNE, DMoj.

California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo, Riverside, Kern, Los Angeles, Mono, Tulare, Imperial, Monterey, Ventura

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