Euphilotes battoides allyni

Woody rockcress

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Woody rockcress is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, high Cascades, Sierra Nevada, and Modoc Plateau on rocky slopes and gravelly soils with sagebrush at elevations of 1,500 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces purple or rose-colored flowers 4.5 to 6 millimeters long with delicate petals. Growing with slender stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall, emerging from a woody caudex with a basal rosette, it has an elegant upright form. Its leaves range from 1.5 to 6 millimeters wide, with basal leaves entire and glabrous, and cauline leaves arranged along the stem. The fruit is a distinctive elongated pod 3 to 8 centimeters long with wavy edges, reflexed or occasionally pendant.

Habitat: Rocky slopes, gravelly soil, generally with sagebrush

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1500-3000 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, SNH, MP

California counties: Trinity, El Dorado, Siskiyou, Sierra, Lassen, Plumas, Tuolumne, Shasta, Tehama, Modoc, Nevada, Mono, Alpine, Butte, Mendocino, Glenn, Placer

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