Styrax redivivus

California snowdrop bush

Family: Styracaceae · Type: shrub · Native

California snowdrop bush is a California native shrub found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, Sacramento Valley, southern Coast Ranges, southern California, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and Mojave Desert in dry places within chaparral and woodland habitats at elevations generally below 1,500 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces delicate white flowers in bell-shaped clusters 12 to 26 millimeters long, with 5 to 10 soft lobes. Growing 1 to 4 meters tall with slender branching stems, it forms an elegantly structured shrub with distinctive white filaments and anthers. Its leaves are ovate to nearly round, 2 to 8 centimeters long, with smooth edges and petioles 3 to 14 millimeters in length. The fruit is 11 to 15 millimeters long, containing a light brown, smooth, spheric-ovoid seed.

Habitat: Uncommon. Dry places in chaparral, woodland

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: generally < 1500 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, NCoRI, CaR, SN, ScV, SCoRO, SCo, TR, PR, DMoj

California counties: San Bernardino, Lake, Shasta, San Luis Obispo, Glenn, Colusa, Amador, Orange, Placer, San Diego, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Butte, Riverside, Fresno, Tehama, Tulare, El Dorado, Calaveras, Mariposa, Plumas, Sierra, Madera, Trinity, Siskiyou, Contra Costa, Napa, Santa Clara, Mono, Yuba

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