Eryngium pendletonense

Pendleton button-celery

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.1

Pendleton button-celery is a rare (CNPS 1B.1) California native perennial found in southern California coastal regions in coastal bluffs, grassland, and coastal-sage scrub at elevations below 50 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces small white flowers in compact heads with 9 to 19 blooms. Growing with sprawling stems up to 20 centimeters tall, it spreads with a branched main stem extending 1 to 6 centimeters beyond its basal rosette. Its distinctive leaves stretch 8 to 25 centimeters long, oblanceolate in shape with pinnately to bipinnately divided lobes that are generally lanceolate or narrowly elliptic. The fruit develops as an obovoid structure with lanceolate scales that taper to a point.

Habitat: Clay soil, coastal bluffs, grassland, coastal-sage scrub

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: < 50 m

Bioregions: SCo.

California counties: San Diego, San Luis Obispo

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