Sabulina cismontana

Cismontane minuartia

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Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: Herb · Native

Sabulina cismontana (Cismontane minuartia) is a native California herb in the Caryophyllaceae family, recognized by leaves longer than internodes plus annual habit.

Cismontane minuartia is a California native annual found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, northern California Coast Ranges, eastern California, northern Sierra Nevada foothills, northern and central Sierra Nevada, San Joaquin Valley, and southern Coast Ranges in dry woodland and chaparral, often on serpentine soils at elevations of 400 to 1,700 meters. Flowering from spring to summer, this delicate plant produces small white flowers with lance-linear sepals and petals that are slightly shorter than the sepals. Growing 8 to 20 centimeters tall with widely spreading to erect green or red-purple stems, it forms a much-branched habit with a thread-like taproot. Its slender leaves are 2 to 7 millimeters long, narrow and flexible, ranging from lanceolate to linear, and sometimes slightly curved outward. The tiny brown to reddish seeds are less than 1 millimeter long with a thick margin.

Sources: Jepson eFlora · CalPhotos

Last updated 2026-10-07

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