Sabulina californica

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Sabulina californica, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda — fig. a Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / 2016-04-10 / obs. 3337963

Sabulina californica, photographed by Trevor Van Loon — fig. b Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119261571

Sabulina californica, photographed by Steve Matson — fig. f Steve Matson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136167768

Sabulina californica, photographed by Matt Berger — fig. g Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66831322

Sabulina californica, photographed by Scott Loarie — fig. h Scott Loarie, CC0 1.0 / obs. 3544322

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Sabulina californica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
California	CAL	NORTHERN AMERICA
Oregon	ORE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Alsinopsis californica (A.Gray) A.Heller
Arenaria brevifolia var. californica A.Gray
Arenaria californica (A.Gray) W.H.Brewer
Arenaria pusilla var. diffusa Maguire
Minuartia californica (A.Gray) Mattf.
Minuartia pusilla var. diffusa (Maguire) McNeill

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.