Eriogonum umbellatum

Sulphur flower, Sulphur Flower

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Sulphur flower is a California native perennial found in mountain and high desert regions in rocky, open areas at elevations ranging from low to high mountain zones. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces yellow, white, or red flowers in compact umbel-like clusters 3 to 25 centimeters wide. Growing 2 to 12 decimeters tall with a spreading woody base, it forms dense mounded clumps with tomentose or hairy stems. Its basal leaves are small, measuring 0.3 to 3 centimeters long and 0.1 to 2.5 centimeters wide, typically covered in dense woolly hairs. The flower clusters have distinctive involucres with 6 to 12 reflexed teeth, giving the plant a unique textural appearance.

California counties: Kern, Alpine, Inyo, Mono, Plumas, Tulare, Fresno, Lassen, Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino, Modoc, Siskiyou, Shasta, Nevada, Placer, Mariposa, El Dorado, Mendocino, Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Humboldt, Tehama, Trinity, Sierra, Del Norte, Tuolumne, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Yolo, Madera, Amador

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