Ceanothus oliganthus - Hairy-leaf ceanothus

Hairy-leaf ceanothus (Ceanothus oliganthus) is a sprawling evergreen shrub of north-facing chaparral slopes in coastal Southern California, valued as a bird and wildlife plant and sometimes grown as a hedge.¹ It grows 2-4 m tall and wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹

Type

• Ceanothus spp. - Wild lilac
• Shrub¹
• Evergreen¹

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Wildlife habitat¹
• Hedge¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	2-4
Diameter (m)	2-4

Footnotes

1. Ceanothus oliganthus var. oliganthus, Hairy-Leaf Ceanothus | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩