Lewisia stebbinsii

Stebbins' lewisia, Stebbins' Lewisia

Family: Montiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Stebbins' lewisia is a rare California native perennial ranked 1B.2 by CNPS, found in the northern Coast Ranges in open, gravelly sites within conifer forest at elevations of 1,600 to 2,050 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces magenta or red flowers with white bases and purple veins, 8 to 15 millimeters long, with blunt and slightly jagged petals. Growing with 1 to 9 prostrate stems 1 to 14 centimeters tall, it forms a distinctive rosette. Its fleshy leaves are 5 to 15 in number, oblanceolate to obovate, 9 centimeters or less, with entire or slightly wavy margins tapering to a long petiole and an obtuse tip. The fruit is 5 to 7 millimeters long, containing about 20 small seeds.

Habitat: Open, gravelly sites, serpentine or not, conifer forest

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 1600-2050 m

Bioregions: NCoRH.

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