Streptanthus barbatus

Pacific jewelflower

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Pacific jewelflower is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, including Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity counties, in serpentine and rocky Jeffrey-pine forest at elevations of 800 to 2,200 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces purple flowers with darker purple veins, approximately 5 to 9 millimeters long and delicately crinkled. Growing with simple or few-branched stems 15 to 80 centimeters tall, it has a woody caudex and remains generally glabrous. Its basal leaves are obovate and short-petioled, while mid-cauline leaves are round to broadly ovate, 0.7 to 3.5 centimeters long, with bases that clasp the stem and stiff hairs at tooth tips. The fruit is a recurved pod 2 to 7 centimeters long, bearing 16 to 30 seeds with narrow wings.

Habitat: Serpentine, rocky, open Jeffrey-pine forest

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 800-2200 m

Bioregions: KR (Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity cos.).

California counties: Trinity, Siskiyou, Tehama, Shasta

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