Streptanthus glandulosus

Bristly jewelflower

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: annual · Native

Bristly jewelflower is a California native annual found in rocky or open areas at elevations of 300 to 1,600 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces white to purple, rose, or purple-black flowers 7 to 17 millimeters long with crinkled petals. Growing with stiff-hairy stems 1.5 to 9 meters tall that can be simple or branched, it develops slender, distinctive foliage. Its leaves range from lance-linear to oblanceolate, with basal leaves being coarsely dentate and early-deciduous while mid-stem leaves are sessile and can have lobed or clasping bases. The fruit develops as an ascending to spreading pod 3 to 11 centimeters long, with seeds featuring a narrow continuous wing.

California counties: Colusa, Lake, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Tehama, Glenn, Sonoma, Mendocino, Shasta, Yolo, Contra Costa, Stanislaus, San Benito

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