Taproots gradually ramified distally. Stems erect, 0.5–3 cm. Leaves: basal leaves withering at or soon after anthesis, sessile, blade linear to slightly clavate, terete, 0.8–2 cm, margins entire, apex obtuse; cauline leaves absent. Inflorescences with flowers borne singly; bracts 2–4, proximal in 1 pair, ovate to lanceolate, 2–3 mm, margins entire, apex acute. Flowers sessile to subsessile, disarticulate in fruit; sepals 2, broadly obovate to broadly ovate, 7–8 mm, scarious at anthesis, margins entire, apex rounded or sometimes emarginate; petals 5–8, pale rose-pink, oblanceolate to broadly obovate, 13–18 mm, apex obtuse; stamens 1–15; stigmas 4. Seeds 11–15, 2.8–3.5 mm.

Phenology: Flowering late winter-mid(-late) spring.
Habitat: Granitic formations on rocky, gravelly, or sandy substrate
Elevation: 1900-2600 m

Distribution

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Calif.

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Lewisia disepala is known only from scattered localities in the southern Sierra Nevada.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.