Frasera parryi

Coahuila frasera

Family: Gentianaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Coahuila frasera is a California native perennial found in southern California coastal regions, the San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardno Mountains, and Peninsular Ranges in dry, open woodland and chaparral at elevations of 100 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces light green flowers with distinctive purple dots, featuring delicate obovate lobes that are short-acuminate. Growing 60 to 160 centimeters tall with one or two glabrous stems, it develops distinctive white-margined leaves that range from strap-shaped to elliptic-oblanceolate. Its basal leaves are particularly notable, measuring 5 to 25 centimeters long and 8 to 40 millimeters wide with acute tips, while cauline leaves are opposite and ovate to lance-oblong. The plant's unique corolla features a low fringed ridge between stamens and a U-shaped nectary pit on each lobe, creating an intricate botanical structure.

Habitat: Dry, open woodland, chaparral

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: 100-1900 m

Bioregions: SCo, SnGb, SnBr, PR

California counties: San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Orange

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