Calflora: Calandrinia ciliata

Calandrinia ciliata (Ruiz Lopez & Pavon) DC.

Redmaids, red maids

Calandrinia ciliata, a dicot, is an annual herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Valley Grassland, Foothill Woodland
Wetlands:	Usually occurs in non wetlands, but occasionally found in wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Elevation:	between 0 and 6000 feet
Family:	MONTIACEAE (CNPS + PLANTS: PORTULACACEAE)
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Calandrinia found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:

PLANTS:

Calandrinia ciliata var. menziesii

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 23 / 12 CCH Amador: 10 / 7 CCH Butte: 36 / 27 CCH Calaveras: 4 / 4 CCH Contra Costa: 36 / 20 CCH Colusa: 17 / 16 CCH Del Norte: 12 / 11 CCH El Dorado: 19 / 12 CCH Fresno: 15 / 7 CCH Glenn: 3 / 2 CCH Humboldt: 26 / 25 CCH Imperial: 1 / 1 CCH Inyo: 1 / 1 CCH Kings: 2 / 2 CCH Kern: 49 / 41 CCH Lake: 11 / 8 CCH Lassen: 2 / 2 CCH Los Angeles: 154 / 122 CCH Madera: 2 / 1 CCH Mendocino: 19 / 6 CCH Merced: 11 / 6 CCH Monterey: 49 / 23 CCH Modoc: 4 / 4 CCH Mariposa: 6 / 3 CCH Marin: 43 / 6 CCH Napa: 27 / 15 CCH Nevada: 10 / 7 CCH Orange: 28 / 20 CCH Placer: 7 / 3 CCH Plumas: 8 / 6 CCH Riverside: 141 / 122 CCH Sacramento: 31 / 18 CCH Santa Barbara: 136 / 115 CCH San Bernardino: 37 / 36 CCH San Benito: 9 / 3 CCH Santa Clara: 28 / 16 CCH Santa Cruz: 12 / 7 CCH San Diego: 240 / 218 CCH San Francisco: 19 / 1 CCH Shasta: 10 / 5 CCH San Joaquin: 5 / 4 CCH San Luis Obispo: 48 / 35 CCH San Mateo: 17 / 4 CCH Solano: 21 / 11 CCH Sonoma: 32 / 1 CCH Stanislaus: 6 / 5 CCH Sutter: 7 / 5 CCH Tehama: 16 / 15 CCH Trinity: 2 / 2 CCH Tulare: 10 / 5 CCH Tuolumne: 11 / 6 CCH Ventura: 62 / 54 CCH Yolo: 23 / 22 CCH Yuba: 5 / 4 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Calandrinia ciliata from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (CACI2)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
UC Integrated Pest Management Weed Photo Gallery
(profile of this plant as an agricultural weed)
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database