Limnanthes floccosa subsp. floccosa

Woolly meadowfoam, Woolly Meadowfoam

Family: Limnanthaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.2

Woolly meadowfoam is a California native annual found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, and Cascade Range in vernal pool edges at elevations below 600 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces white to cream-colored flowers with bell- to urn-shaped petals 4.5 to 8.5 millimeters long. Growing with dense, hairy herbage, it forms low-spreading plants that cluster around seasonal wetland margins. Its leaves are densely covered in soft hairs, giving the plant a woolly, grayish-green appearance. The fruit develops as one to three small mericarps with awl-shaped tubercles.

Habitat: Vernal pool edges

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: < 600 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRI, CaR

California counties: Butte, Shasta, Trinity, Tehama, Napa, Lake

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