Taraxia subacaulis

Long leaved suncup

Family: Onagraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Long leaved suncup is a California native perennial found in the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin bioregions in moist meadows with clay soils at elevations of 450 to 2,600 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces pale yellow flowers with petals 5 to 16 millimeters long. Growing with fleshy, nearly glabrous stems, it forms a low-spreading habit with distinctive elongated leaves. Its leaves are lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 20 to 220 millimeters long, ranging from nearly entire to irregularly pinnately lobed. The fruit is a linear-ovoid capsule 11 to 28 millimeters long, slightly angular and leathery.

Habitat: Moist meadows, generally clay soils

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 450-2600 m

Bioregions: SN, GB

California counties: Mono, Siskiyou, Plumas, Lassen, Placer, Modoc, Sierra, Tulare, Tehama, Nevada, Alpine, Los Angeles

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