Streptanthus diversifolius

Varied-leaved jewelflower

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: annual · Native

Varied-leaved jewelflower is a California native annual found in northern Sierra Nevada Foothills and central Sierra Nevada in open woodland and rocky slopes at elevations of 200 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces pale yellow to white flowers with purple veins, approximately 8 to 16 millimeters long with crinkled petals. Growing with erect, branched stems 20 to 90 centimeters tall, it develops distinctive pinnately divided leaves with thread-like segments. Its basal leaves are intricately divided, with mid-cauline leaves having segments 0.4 to 2.7 centimeters long and less than 1.5 millimeters wide, while upper cauline leaves become lance-linear to ovate and sessile. The fruit develops as a long, slender pod 3 to 9 centimeters in length, containing 38 to 80 small oblong seeds.

Habitat: Open woodland, rocky slopes

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: 200-1900 m

Bioregions: n SNF, c&amps SN.

California counties: Fresno, Madera, Tulare, Tuolumne, Mariposa, El Dorado, Butte

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