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Lewisia disepala
Also called Yosemite bitterroot
Yosemite lewisia is a small perennial alpine herb from the Sierra Nevada of California, forming a tight rosette of fleshy leaves with pink flowers. It needs sharp drainage, full sun and cool conditions, and is hard to keep in cultivation outside its native habitat.
Lewisia disepala is a species of flowering plant in the family Montiaceae known by the common name Yosemite lewisia.
Lewisia disepala is endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California, where it is known from several sites high in the mountains. It grows in rocky mountain habitat such as talus and open beds of bare gravel.
Shortsepal lewisia · Cantelow's lewisia · Columbian lewisia · Congdon's lewisia · Siskiyou lewisia · Kellogg's lewisia · Quill-leaf lewisia · Truckee lewisia · Maguire's lewisia · Nevada lewisia · Oppositeleaf lewisia · Alpine lewisia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lewisia disepala 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.
