Oreocarya sobolifera

Creeping oreocarya

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Creeping oreocarya is a California native perennial found in shale habitats at elevations of 1,500 to 3,500 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces white flowers in small head-like clusters with a corolla limb 6 to 8 millimeters in diameter. Growing with many-branched stems 10 to 18 centimeters tall, it develops dense silky-strigose foliage. Its basal rosettes feature distinctive gray, oblanceolate leaves 1.5 to 4 centimeters long, covered in appressed bristles. The plant produces four small nutlets 2 to 3.5 millimeters long with lanceolate-ovate shapes and narrow marginal rims.

Habitat: Shale

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: 1500-3500 m

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