Trichostema lanatum - Woolly bluecurls

Woolly bluecurls (Trichostema lanatum) is an aromatic evergreen shrub native to California’s chaparral, its leaves and flowering tops brewed into a tea and used traditionally to ease stomach ailments.¹

Outputs

• Human food¹
• Medicinal use¹

Type

• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Flammable²

Footnotes

1. Trichostema lanatum | Useful Temperate Plants ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 10 seconds ↩