Purshia glandulosa - Desert bitterbrush

Desert bitterbrush (Purshia glandulosa) is an evergreen shrub of the Mojave Desert and eastern Sierra Nevada margins, with white rose-like flowers, browsed by wildlife through winter. It grows 1-1.5 m tall and 1.5-2 m 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
• Evergreen

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Wildlife habitat¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	1-1.5
Diameter (m)	1.5-2

Footnotes

1. Purshia glandulosa, Desert bitterbrush | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 50 seconds ↩