Luetkea pectinata

Partridge foot

Family: Rosaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Partridge foot is a California native subshrub found in the Klamath Ranges and high Cascade Range Regions in moist mountain slopes and conifer forests at elevations of 1,800 to 2,800 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces delicate white flowers in small terminal racemes, with petals approximately 3 millimeters long. Growing with prostrate or long-trailing stems 5 to 25 centimeters tall, it forms low-spreading clusters across alpine and subalpine terrain. Its leaves are intricately dissected into fine linear segments, with each leaf 5 to 15 millimeters long, divided approximately two-ternately with acute segments that are ribbed on the undersurface. The plant produces 4 to 6 leathery follicles about 4 millimeters long, which split open along both sutures when mature.

Habitat: Moist slopes, often near snow, conifer forest

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 1800-2800 m

Bioregions: KR, CaRH

California counties: Siskiyou, Trinity, Riverside, Shasta, Del Norte

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