Eschscholzia lobbii

Frying pans

Family: Papaveraceae · Type: annual · Native

Frying pans is a California native annual found in the Sierra Nevada Foothills and Great Valley in open fields and grasslands at elevations below 800 meters. Flowering from March to April, this plant produces bright yellow flowers with petals 7 to 12 millimeters long, emerging from erect, leafless stems. Growing 5 to 15 centimeters tall with a delicate, glabrous structure, it has distinctive basal leaves that are twice ternately divided into narrow, sharp-pointed linear segments. Its finely dissected leaves create a feathery, intricate appearance with segments radiating from the base in a precise, geometric pattern. The fruit develops up to 4 to 7 centimeters long, bearing small brown seeds with prominently ridged surfaces.

Habitat: Open fields, grassland

Bloom period: Mar-Apr

Elevation: < 800 m

Bioregions: SNF, GV.

California counties: Tuolumne, Tulare, Butte, Amador, Calaveras, Kern, Fresno, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Merced, Tehama, Madera, Yuba, Mariposa, Placer, Sutter, Santa Clara, Solano, El Dorado, Glenn, Mendocino, Nevada, Stanislaus, Yolo, Shasta, Colusa, Napa, Lake, Monterey

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