Frasera albicaulis

Whitestem frasera

Family: Gentianaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Whitestem frasera is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, and northern Sierra Nevada Mountains in montane and alpine habitats. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces green-white to pale blue flowers with dark blue dots, with delicate elliptic-oblong corolla lobes 6 to 12 millimeters long. Growing 1 to 6.5 decimeters tall with 1 to few stems and multiple rosettes, it develops distinctive white-margined leaves. Its basal leaves are oblanceolate, 4 to 23 centimeters long and 3 to 12 millimeters wide, while cauline leaves are opposite and become linear-oblong toward the stem tip. The flower's unique feature includes a ridge between stamens with triangular scales and a small nectary pit in each lobe.

Bioregions: KR, NCoR, CaR, n SN, MP

California counties: Lassen, Plumas, Trinity, Modoc, Siskiyou, Butte, Sierra

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