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Lewisia leeana
Also called Quill Leaved Lewisia
Quill-leaf lewisia is a small alpine perennial from the mountains of northern California and southwest Oregon, forming a rosette of fleshy leaves with branching stems of white to pink flowers. It needs sharp drainage and cool conditions, as it is grown mainly in rock gardens and alpine troughs.
Lewisia leeana (orth. var. L. leana) is a species of flowering plant in the family Montiaceae known by the common name quill-leaf lewisia. It is native to California and Oregon, where it grows in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada and Klamath Ranges. This is a perennial herb growing from narrow, woody taproot connected to one or more caudices. It produces a basal rosette of many fleshy flat to cylindrical blunt-tipped leaves up to 4 centimeters (1.6 in) long. The inflorescence bears many flowers on erect, branching stems up to about 24 centimeters (9.4 in) tall. Each flower has 5 to 8 white, pink, or purplish petals each about half a centimeter long.
This plant is named for Lambert Wilmer Lee, who collected it in the Siskiyou Mountains just south of the Oregon border in 1876. It commonly hybridizes with Lewisia cotyledon in the wild, producing Lewisia x whiteae.
Shortsepal lewisia · Cantelow's lewisia · Columbian lewisia · Congdon's lewisia · Siskiyou lewisia · Yosemite lewisia · Kellogg's lewisia · Truckee lewisia · Maguire's lewisia · Nevada lewisia · Oppositeleaf lewisia · Alpine lewisia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lewisia leeana 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.
