Limnanthes montana

Mountain meadowfoam

Family: Limnanthaceae · Type: annual · Native

Mountain meadowfoam is a California native annual found in central Sierra Nevada Mountains in wet meadows and stream edges at elevations of 200 to 1,800 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces white flowers with occasional yellow bases and purple veins, 7 to 12 millimeters long with a delicate funnel shape. Growing 10 to 40 centimeters tall with ascending to erect stems that are glabrous to sparsely long-hairy, it forms an elegant meadow presence. Its compound leaves feature 7 to 11 leaflets ranging from linear to ovate, which can be entire or deeply 3-lobed with intricate edge variations. The fruit develops with low, conic tubercles, characteristic of this distinctive meadow-dwelling species.

Habitat: Wet meadows, stream edges

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: 200-1800 m

Bioregions: c&amps SNF.

California counties: Tulare, Kern, Fresno, Calaveras, El Dorado, Mariposa, Madera, Tuolumne, Ventura

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