Lewisia nevadensis

Nevada lewisia, Nevada Lewisia

Family: Montiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Nevada lewisia is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, high Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, Warner Mountains, and eastern Sierra Nevada in grassy meadows, moist gravel flats, and open forests at elevations of 1,300 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces delicate white to pale-pink flowers with 5 to 10 petals 9 to 20 millimeters long, arranged singly or in small clusters above its leaf rosette. Growing with slender stems emerging from a compact base, it forms an open rosette of thread-like to narrowly lanceolate leaves 3 to 13 centimeters long. Its leaves are distinctive, tapering to the base with obtuse tips and growing in loose, open arrangements that highlight the plant's delicate structure. The small fruit measures 5 to 10 millimeters long and contains 20 to 50 tiny seeds approximately 1.3 millimeters in size.

Habitat: Grassy meadows, moist gravel flats, open forest

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 1300-3000 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, SNH, TR, PR, Wrn, SNE

California counties: Tulare, Tuolumne, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, El Dorado, Madera, Fresno, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Inyo, Lassen, Mariposa, Mendocino, Modoc, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Trinity, Ventura, Plumas, Alpine, Tehama, Lake, San Diego, San Benito

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