Monolepis spathulata

Beaver monolepis

Family: Chenopodiaceae · Type: annual · Native

Beaver monolepis is a California native annual found in the Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, and eastern Sierra Nevada in moist, somewhat alkaline streambanks and meadows at elevations of 2,000 to 3,450 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces small clusters of inconspicuous flowers in green to whitish tones. Growing with decumbent to erect stems 2 to 20 centimeters tall, it appears delicate and glabrous or sparsely powdery. Its leaves are fleshy and narrowly oblanceolate to spoon-shaped, measuring 3 to 25 millimeters long and appearing entire along the stem. The tiny fruits are less than one millimeter long with a minutely textured wall.

Habitat: Moist, +- alkaline streambanks and meadows

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 2000-3450 m

Bioregions: SNH, SnBr, SNE

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