Tragia ramosa

Desert tragia, Desert Tragia

Family: Euphorbiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Desert tragia is a California native perennial found in the desert mountains in dry, rocky slopes, scrub, and pinyon/juniper woodland at elevations of 900 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces small flowers with white to pale stamens in spreading clusters. Growing with rough-hairy stems 10 to 30 centimeters tall, it has an upright, somewhat branching structure. Its leaves are lanceolate to ovate, 1 to 2 centimeters long with coarse, sharp teeth and a truncate to slightly lobed base. The fruit is a small, depressed-spheric capsule 3 to 4 millimeters long, sparsely covered in fine bristles.

Habitat: Dry, rocky slopes, scrub, pinyon/juniper woodland

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: 900-1900 m

Bioregions: DMtns

California counties: San Bernardino, Riverside

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