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Camissoniopsis pallida
Paleyellow Suncup is a low-growing annual wildflower of the evening-primrose family, native to desert and scrub areas of Arizona, California and Nevada. It is grown mainly for its small yellow flowers in native or xeric gardens, and it needs sun, sharp drainage and little water.
Camissoniopsis pallida is a low growing, yellow-flowered annual plant in the evening primrose family, Onagraceae. It is known by the common names pale primrose or pale yellow suncup. It is native to the desert and scrub habitat of the region where Arizona, California, and Nevada meet. It is a roughly hairy annual herb growing in a low patch on the ground, sometimes producing an erect stem from the basal rosette. The herbage is gray-green to reddish green. The leaves are lance-shaped and up to 3 centimeters long. The nodding inflorescence produces flowers with yellow petals 2 to 13 millimeters long, each with small red markings near the bases. The fruit is a straight to tightly coiled capsule.
California Suncup · Beach Evening Primrose · Hardham's Evening Primrose · Hairy Sun Cup · Intermediate Suncup · Lewis' Evening Primrose · Santa Lucia Suncup · Miniature Suncup · Suncups
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Camissoniopsis pallida 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.
