Eremothera chamaenerioides
Long fruit suncup
Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native
Long fruit suncup is a California native annual found in the Inyo Mountains and Mojave Desert on sandy slopes, flats, and desert scrub at elevations of 50 to 1,300 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces white flowers that fade to reddish, with delicate petals 1.8 to 3 millimeters long. Growing with erect stems 8 to 50 centimeters tall that have a distinctive peeling texture and reddish coloration, it develops a glandular-hairy appearance. Its leaves are narrow, less than 80 millimeters long, elliptic to lanceolate with sparse minute teeth. The distinctive fruit is an elongated cylindrical structure 35 to 55 millimeters long, spreading outward from the plant.
Habitat: Sandy slopes, flats, desert scrub
Bloom period: Mar-Jun
Elevation: +- -50-1300 m.
Bioregions: W&I, D
California counties: San Bernardino, Imperial, Riverside, Inyo, San Diego, Alpine, Mono
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.