Euphorbia jaegeri

Orocopia mountains spurge, Orocopia Mountains Spurge

Family: Euphorbiaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.1

Orocopia mountains spurge is a rare (CNPS 1B.1) California native shrub found in the Bristol and Marble Mountains in the desert mountains, and Orocopia Mountains in the desert south, at elevations of 600 to 850 meters. Flowering all year, this plant produces white to pink petal-like appendages with small cyathia arranged at each node. Growing 10 to 25 centimeters tall with ascending to erect stems that repeatedly fork and have a distinctive two-faced appearance, the plant has a diffusely branched structure. Its opposite leaves are subsessile, elliptic to ovate, 3.7 to 10.1 millimeters long with rounded to obtuse tips and symmetric or slightly asymmetric bases. The fruit is a small, lobed, puberulent subspheric structure approximately 1.7 to 2.3 millimeters long.

Habitat: Uncommon. Generally rock crevices or gravel in dry rocky hillsides, arroyos in desert scrub

Bloom period: All year

Elevation: +- 600-850 m.

Bioregions: DMtns (Bristol, Marble mtns), DSon (Orocopia Mtns).

California counties: Riverside, San Bernardino

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