Hornungia procumbens

Prostrate hutchinsia

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Prostrate hutchinsia is a naturalized annual found in California's saline flats, woodlands, deserts, meadows, salt marshes, and sagebrush scrub at elevations up to 2,900 meters. Flowering from February to July, this plant produces small white, spoon-shaped flowers with delicate petals. Growing with decumbent to erect branched stems 5 to 22 centimeters tall, it spreads low across the ground. Its leaves range from obovate to oblanceolate, with basal leaves up to 1.5 centimeters long that may be entire or lightly toothed. The tiny fruit is elliptic to obovate, measuring 3 to 4 millimeters long with seeds clustered in groups of 10 to 24.

Habitat: Saline flats, shaded sites, woodland, desert, meadows, salt marshes, sagebrush scrub

Bloom period: Feb-Jul

Elevation: < 2900 m

Bioregions: CA (exc KR, n&ampc SNH)

California counties: San Bernardino, Lassen, Santa Barbara, Riverside, San Diego, Kern, Orange, Inyo, Tulare, Mono, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Contra Costa, Ventura, Sonoma, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Modoc, Tuolumne, Alameda, Madera, Stanislaus, Siskiyou, Los Angeles, Kings, Merced, Glenn, Colusa, Napa, Plumas, Yolo, Fresno

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