Marina orcuttii var. orcuttii

California marina

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.3

California marina is a rare (CNPS 1B.3) California native perennial found in the eastern Peninsular Ranges in the Santa Rosa Mountains on rocky slopes at elevations of 1,050 to 1,150 meters. Flowering from May to October, this plant produces small flowers with distinctive glandular features. Growing less than 20 centimeters tall with a strigose, generally gray appearance, it forms a compact, low-growing habit. Its leaves are densely packed with 11 to 15 crowded leaflets, each 2 to 5 millimeters long, oblanceolate to obovate in shape and characteristically folded with a large glandular tip. The compact inflorescence reaches 1 to 2 centimeters in length, with a flower keel measuring 5 to 5.5 millimeters.

Habitat: Rocky slopes

Bloom period: May-Oct

Elevation: 1050-1150 m

Bioregions: e PR (Santa Rosa Mtns)

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