Vancouveria hexandra

Deciduous vancouvaria

Family: Berberidaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Deciduous vancouvaria is a California native perennial found in northern Coast Ranges, western Klamath Ranges, and northern Coast Range Outer regions in conifer forest at elevations below 1,900 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces white flowers with strongly reflexed, hood-like petals and delicate red-glandular filaments. Growing with graceful stems up to 27 centimeters tall, it displays distinctive deciduous leaves that are glabrous on top and sparsely hairy underneath. Its leaves are compound, measuring 8 to 27 centimeters long, with a glabrous petiole that turns straw-colored with age. In fruit, the plant develops a glandular-hairy seed body 8 to 10 millimeters long.

Habitat: Conifer forest

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: < 1900 m

Bioregions: NCo, w KR, n NCoRO

California counties: Del Norte, Siskiyou, Humboldt, San Francisco, Mendocino, Trinity, Napa, Santa Cruz, San Mateo

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