Sabulina nuttallii

Nuttall's sandwort

Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Nuttall's sandwort is a California native perennial herb found in mat-forming clusters with trailing stems up to 60 centimeters long. Flowering from spring to summer, this plant produces delicate white flowers with sepals 3.5 to 7 millimeters long. Growing densely glandular-hairy with a robust taproot over 3 millimeters in diameter, it forms low-growing mats 2 to 20 centimeters tall. Its leaves are distinctive needle-like to awl-shaped structures, 5 to 12 millimeters long and less than 1.1 millimeters wide, appearing rigid and evenly spaced along the stems. The seeds are small, measuring 1.5 to 2.2 millimeters with thick margins in red-brown to dark brown coloration.

California counties: Modoc, Siskiyou, Del Norte, Los Angeles, Plumas, San Bernardino, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, Fresno, Inyo, Mono, Tulare, Lake, Mendocino, Madera, El Dorado

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