Stanleya elata

Panamint princesplume

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Panamint princesplume is a California native perennial found in the southern eastern desert mountains and desert mountains in rocky canyon scrub at elevations of 1,000 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces yellow to white flowers in dense elongated clusters with narrow petals 8 to 13 millimeters long. Growing with erect glaucous stems 60 to 180 centimeters tall, it develops a robust structure with simple or few-branched growth. Its leaves are broadly lanceolate or oblong, ranging from 8 to 21 centimeters long, with entire margins and gradually smaller leaves ascending the stem. The distinctive fruit develops 4 to 9 centimeters long with spreading to reflexed pedicels, supporting numerous small seeds.

Habitat: Among boulders in canyons, scrub

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 1000-2500 m

Bioregions: SNE, DMtns

California counties: Inyo, San Bernardino, Mono, Lassen

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