Gratiola ebracteata

Bractless hedge-hyssop

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Bractless hedge-hyssop is a California native annual found in northern and central California Floristic Province, excluding the North Coast Ranges, and in the Modoc Plateau in wet, muddy places at elevations below 2,400 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces white flowers with a yellowish throat, sometimes pink-tinged, on stout erect pedicels. Growing 5 to 20 centimeters tall with simple to branched stems containing 6 to 12 leafy nodes, it forms delicate upright clusters. Its lance-ovate to lance-linear leaves measure 7 to 25 millimeters long, tapering to a point and nearly entire. The spherical fruit is 4-angled with abruptly pointed valve tips, measuring 3.5 to 6 millimeters across.

Habitat: Wet, muddy places

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: < 2400 m

Bioregions: n&ampc CA-FP (exc NCoRH), MP

California counties: Calaveras, Butte, Shasta, San Joaquin, Mendocino, Humboldt, Tuolumne, Sonoma, Tehama, Modoc, Siskiyou, Lake, Napa, Stanislaus, Placer, Amador, Sacramento, Marin, Lassen, Plumas, Sierra, Yuba, Merced, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Mariposa, El Dorado, San Mateo, Madera, Solano, Nevada, Sutter

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