Eriodictyon lobbii

Matted yerba santa

Family: Namaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Matted yerba santa is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern California Cascades, northern Sierra Nevada, and Warner Mountains in dry, sandy or rocky alluvial slopes and open pine forests at elevations of 900 to 2,350 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces purple to pink flowers in a wide funnel-shaped to narrow bell-shaped corolla 7 to 12 millimeters long. Growing in low mats over 1 meter in diameter with prostrate to ascending stems 16 to 50 centimeters tall, it forms a densely branched and woody-based perennial. Its leaves are oblanceolate to obovate, 0.5 to 6 centimeters long, strongly rolled under and sticky on the upper surface, with smallest leaves clustered in axils. The fruit is small, 2 to 4 millimeters long, with black, slightly angled seeds.

Habitat: Dry, sandy or rocky alluvial slopes, ridges, open pine forest

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 900-2350 m

Bioregions: KR, CaRH, n SNH, nw MP, Wrn (rare)

California counties: El Dorado, Plumas, Butte, Sierra, Siskiyou, Placer, Nevada, Tehama

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