Eremothera nevadensis

Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native

Nevada evening-primrose is a California native annual found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on clay, sandy, or gravelly soils in pine-juniper-sagebrush habitat at elevations of 2,100 to 2,150 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces delicate white petals 3 to 5 millimeters long with a distinctive reddish overall coloration. Growing with decumbent lateral stems and a short primary stem, it forms a tuft of leaves toward the stem tip with oblanceolate leaves. Its narrow leaves have entire margins and the plant is minutely strigose, with hairs that are sometimes nearly absent. The fruit is a cylindric, strongly wavy and twisted structure 8 to 14 millimeters long that persists after flowering.

Habitat: Local and colonial on clay, sandy, or gravelly soils, often vernally wet sites, somewhat tolerant of alkali soils in pine-juniper-sagebrush habitat

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 2100-2150 m

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