Purshia tridentata - Antelope bitterbrush

Antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) is a gray, small-leaved, nitrogen-fixing shrub of dry slopes on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, an important winter browse plant whose seeds feed birds and chipmunks. It grows 1-2 m tall and 1-3 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹
• Well drained soil¹

Type

• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Wildlife habitat¹
• Nitrogen fixer¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	1-2
Diameter (m)	1-3

Footnotes

1. Purshia tridentata, Antelope Bitterbrush | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

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