   | Description:
Form: Much branched, evergreen shrub 3 – 12 feet tall with short needle-like leaves.
Leaves: Clustered, ¼ inch needle-like leaves.
Flowers: Showy dense clusters of very small five-parted white flowers with numerous stamens.
Blooming: April – June.
Plant Community: Dry slopes and ridges in the chaparral and coastal sage.
Uses: Cahuilla Indians used branches to make arrows and bows. A decoction of leaves was used to bathe infections and sores.
Common name: Chamise comes from a Portuguese term meaning “a flame”. aka Greasewood
Latin name: Adenostoma (Grk. gland + mouth) refers to the 5 glands at the mouth of the sepals while fasciculatum describes the bundles of needle-like leaves.
Note: Highly flammable. Color: white
Season: April, May, June,
Community: Chaparral, Coastal Sage Scrub,
Use: Medicinal, Ecological, Miscellaneous,
Origin: Native |
