Ericameria arborescens - Golden fleece

Golden fleece (Ericameria arborescens) is a fast-growing, stress-deciduous shrub of California chaparral, yellow pine forest, and oak woodland, useful for quick color and site stabilization until longer-lived trees establish.¹ It grows 1-2 m tall and wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹

Type

• Shrub
• Deciduous

Functions

• Pollination¹
• Fire resistance²

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	1-2
Diameter (m)	1-2

Footnotes

1. Ericameria arborescens, Golden Fleece | 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 ↩