Lithophragma parviflorum

Pink woodland star

Family: Saxifragaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Pink woodland star is a California native perennial found in western foothill woodland and northern coastal habitats at elevations of 10 to 1,000 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces white to pale pink flowers with three-lobed petals 7 to 16 millimeters long. Growing with delicate stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall, it forms an elegant upright structure with fine branching. Its basal leaves are deeply divided, with blades cut nearly to the base into three major lobes, each of those lobes further subdivided with sharp-tipped teeth. The flower's distinctive hypanthium is long and obconic, with more than half of the ovary embedded within the flower structure.

California counties: Kern, San Francisco, San Benito, Siskiyou, Mariposa, San Luis Obispo, Tuolumne, Trinity, Del Norte, Placer, Lassen, Lake, Fresno, Mendocino, Modoc, Napa, Monterey, Butte, Plumas, Los Angeles, Riverside, Nevada, San Bernardino, Shasta, El Dorado, Tulare, Alameda, Amador, Calaveras, Glenn, Marin, San Joaquin, Santa Barbara, Sierra, Sutter, Sacramento, Stanislaus, Merced, Tehama, Ventura, Humboldt, Colusa, Alpine, Yolo

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