Pickeringia montana - Chaparral pea

Chaparral pea (Pickeringia montana) is an evergreen shrub of the Sierra Nevada and coast-range chaparral, spreading by underground roots and bearing showy purple pea flowers. It grows 1-2 m tall and wide.¹

Inputs

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

Type

• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Drought-tolerance¹
• Soil stabilization¹

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

Footnotes

1. Pickeringia montana, Chaparral Pea | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

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