Saxifragopsis fragarioides

Strawberry saxifrage

Family: Saxifragaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Strawberry saxifrage is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges in rock crevices at elevations of 1,500 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces delicate white to pink flowers in open panicles with more than 40 crowded blooms near the stem tips. Growing with glandular stems 10 to 25 centimeters tall, it develops a thick, woody, branched rhizome with scaly features. Its basal leaves are obovate, 1.5 to 4 centimeters long, with coarse teeth and distinctive petioles that expand at the base and are uniquely jointed, causing leaves to fall from the stem. The fruit develops as a capsule containing brown seeds with longitudinal ridges.

Habitat: rock crevices

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: 1500-3000 m

Bioregions: KR

California counties: Siskiyou, Humboldt, Trinity, Del Norte, Shasta

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