Streptanthus longisiliquus

Long-fruit jewelflower

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Long-fruit jewelflower is a California native perennial ranked 4.3 by CNPS, found in the eastern Klamath Ranges and California Ranges in openings of pine forest and oak woodland at elevations of 400 to 1,700 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces distinctive purple flowers with yellow-green bases, ranging 8 to 12 millimeters long and exceptionally narrow at 0.5 to 0.8 millimeters wide. Growing with few-branched stems 22 to 120 centimeters tall, it develops a simple or slightly branched caudex. Its leaves are diverse, with basal rosette leaves obovate to spoon-shaped, and mid-stem leaves broadly oblong to ovate, sessile and clasping at the base. The fruits are notably long and recurved, stretching 5 to 13 centimeters in length and containing 50 to 82 small oblong seeds.

Habitat: Openings in pine forest, oak woodland

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 400-1700 m

Bioregions: e KR, CaR.

California counties: Nevada, Butte, Shasta, El Dorado, Tehama

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