Ericameria ericoides - Mock heather

Mock heather (Ericameria ericoides) is an evergreen shrub of California coastal dunes, covered each year in bright yellow flowers and tolerant of pure beach sand and salt spray.¹ It grows 1-1.1 m tall and about 1 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹
• Well drained soil¹

Type

• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Fire resistance²

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	1-1.1
Diameter (m)	1

Footnotes

1. Ericameria ericoides, Mock Heather | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

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