Malacothamnus palmeri - Palmer's bushmallow

Palmer’s bushmallow (Malacothamnus palmeri) is a narrow, evergreen, fuzzy gray-foliaged shrub endemic to openings in chaparral and mixed-evergreen forest of the Santa Lucia Mountains, San Luis Obispo County, California. It grows 1-3 m tall and 0.5-1 m wide.¹

Inputs

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

Type

• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Wildlife habitat¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	1-3
Diameter (m)	0.5-1

Footnotes

1. Malacothamnus palmeri | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 45 seconds ↩