Wyethia ovata - Southern mule ears

Southern mule ears (Wyethia ovata) is a low, silver-leaved California perennial with yellow flowers, found from 1200 to 6000 feet from the southern Sierra Nevada into Baja California, and needs little care once established. It grows 0.2-0.4 m tall and 0.3-0.4 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹

Type

• Herb¹
• Perennial¹

Functions

• Fire resistance²

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.2-0.4
Diameter (m)	0.3-0.4

Footnotes

1. Wyethia ovata, Southern Mule Ears | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

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