Nolina bigelovii

Bigelow's nolina

Family: Ruscaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Bigelow's nolina is a California native perennial found in southeastern Peninsular Ranges, southern Mojave Desert, Mojave Mountains, and Sonoran Desert regions on rocky slopes and ridges at elevations of 300 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces pale greenish-white flowers in large, branching inflorescences up to 13 to 37 meters tall. Growing with erect stems 1 to 2.5 meters tall, it forms dense rosettes of 34 to 160 bluish-green leaves that are 15 to 45 millimeters wide. Its leaves have a distinctive base 5 to 11 centimeters wide with minutely serrated margins that become fibrous and shredding with age. In maturity, the plant produces small gray-white seeds approximately 2.5 to 3.5 millimeters long.

Habitat: Rocky slopes, ridges

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 300-1500 m

Bioregions: se PR, s DMoj, DMtns, DSon

California counties: San Bernardino, Imperial, Riverside, San Diego

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