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Camissonia pusilla
Also called Obscure Camissonia, Little Wiry Suncups
Little wiry suncup (Camissonia pusilla) is a small hairy annual wildflower of the evening-primrose family, native to dry western North American sagebrush country. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, and it prefers full sun and well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil.
Camissonia pusilla is a species of evening primrose known by the common name little wiry suncup. It is native to the western United States from California to Idaho, where it grows in sagebrush and other habitat. It is a petite, hairy, glandular annual herb producing very slender erect stems up to about 22 centimeters in maximum height. The leaves linear with toothed edges and 1 to 3 centimeters long. The nodding inflorescence produces flowers with yellow petals 2 or 3 millimeters long and usually spotted with red near the bases. The fruit is a straight or coiling capsule up to 3 centimeters long.
San Benito suncup · Mojave suncup · Plains evening primrose · Grassland suncup · Lewis River suncup · Hairy suncup · Sandysoil suncup · Suncup
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Camissonia pusilla by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
