Jepson's Button Celery, Eryngium aristulatum

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Eryngium aristulatum is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common names California eryngo and Jepson's button celery. This plant is native to California and Baja California where it grows in wet places, such as vernal pools and flooded meadows. This is a perennial herb with erect, rounded, naked stems, occasionally branching and reaching anywhere from 10 centimeters to nearly a meter in height. Leaves appear near the base and at nodes along the stem and are long and serrated to toothed. The flower cluster holds rounded flowers with five to eight long, straight, spiky leafs which often have spiny edges and may grow nearly 3 centimeters long. The flower contains white petals and white or purple styles. While this is an abundant species altogether, one variety (sometimes considered a subspecies), var. parishii, the San Diego button celery, is listed as an endangered species on both the California state and national levels.

Plant Description

Plant Type

Perennial herb

Size

0.33 - 3 ft tall

Flower Color

White, Purple

Wildlife Supported

Butterflies & moths hosted ( 4 likely * ) SHOW ALL

Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenesPapilio polyxenes

Hawaiian Beet Webworm Spoladea recurvalisSpoladea recurvalis

Celery Leaftier Udea rubigalisUdea rubigalis

Agonopterix oregonensisAgonopterix oregonensis

Landscaping Information

Sun

Part Shade

Moisture

Moderate - High

Nurseries

Carried by 1

Ease of Care

Moderately Easy

Natural Setting

Site Type

Vernal pools, wet places

Climate

Annual Precipitation: 10.3" - 71.8", Summer Precipitation: 0.17" - 2.00", Coldest Month: 40.0" - 56.1", Hottest Month: 60.0" - 77.9", Humidity: 0.09" - 25.08", Elevation: 1" - 4104"

Alternative Names

Common Names: California Eryngo, Jepson's Button-celery

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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links: Jepson eFlora Taxon Page CalPhotos Wikipedia Calflora

Jepson's Button Celery

Eryngium aristulatum

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