Trichostema parishii - Parish's romero

Parish’s romero (Trichostema parishii) is a small evergreen shrub of California chaparral, preferring part shade and decomposed granite soil, more drought tolerant than woolly blue curls, with fragrant blue flowers.¹ It grows 0.7-1 m tall and 1-1.5 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Semi-shade¹
• Full sun¹
• Well drained soil¹

Type

• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Flammable²
• Drought-tolerance¹
• Wildlife habitat¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.7-1
Diameter (m)	1-1.5

Footnotes

1. Trichostema parishii, Parish’s Romero | 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 10 seconds ↩