Hazardia squarrosa - Yellow squirrel cover

Yellow squirrel cover (Hazardia squarrosa, syn. Haplopappus squarrosus) is a perennial shrub of California’s coastal bluffs and interior chaparral, named for its habit of growing on road cuts riddled with squirrel burrows. It grows 0.2-0.5 m tall and 0.5-1 m wide.¹

Inputs

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

Type

• Shrub

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Soil stabilization¹
• Attracting beneficial insects¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.2-0.5
Diameter (m)	0.5-1

Footnotes

1. Hazardia squarrosus, Yellow Squirrel Cover | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

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