Romanzoffia sitchensis

Sitka mistmaid

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Sitka mistmaid is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges in moist mountain rock clefts at elevations of 1,700 to 2,100 meters. Flowering from April to September, this plant produces delicate white flowers with a limb 6 to 12 millimeters in diameter. Growing 5 to 30 centimeters tall with a distinctive bulb-like base formed by widened, overlapping petioles, it spreads with slender stems. Its thin leaves are 1 to 4 centimeters wide, with crenate to shallowly lobed edges and petioles 1 to 14 centimeters long that are generally fringed with fine hairs. The fruit is an obovate capsule 4 to 7 millimeters long, containing 15 or more small, honey-combed seeds.

Habitat: Uncommon in CA; more common elsewhere. Moist clefts in rocks, mountains

Bloom period: Apr-Sep

Elevation: [30]1700-2100[2900] m

Bioregions: KR

California counties: Siskiyou, Shasta, Trinity, Humboldt, Del Norte, Marin, San Bernardino

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