Romanzoffia californica

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Romanzoffia californica

Family: (Boraginaceae)

(P) to 8″.  California Mistmaiden.  A native of California and southern Oregon, where it thrives on rocky ocean bluffs, moist forests and wet cliffs.  Tight, attractive clumps of high-gloss green succulent leaves are perfectly scalloped.  Early spring brings attractive, small, white, five-petalled flowers with pale yellow throats held in curving cymes above the foliage.  During the heat of summer, it dies back to a tuberous base and goes completely dormant.  Sun.  3 & 7 for 3 weeks, then T2