Botanical Name: Trichostema lanatum
Common Name: Wooly blue curls
Type of Plant: dicot: shrubby perennial
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape an open, low-growing plant, with slender erect stems; older plants develop a woody base with spreading-sprawling stems to form a loosely rounded canopy
Height 2' - 4'
Spread equal
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun required; avoid shaded locations
Soil tolerates most; requires good drainage
Hardiness hardy (zones 14-24): prefers warm dry low-elevation habitats
 
Morphology:
Leaves pinnate, opposite, linear-lanceolate, 1"-2" long; margins strongly revolute; upper surface bright green, lower grayish white, hairy; leaves may drop in severe drought conditions
Flowers blue-purple or maroon; in dense separated clusters along upper portions of the stems; flowers and stem covered with wooly hairs; April-August, intermittent
Fruit tiny capsule
 
Propagation:
seed, softwood cuttings
 
Usage:
a small accent shrub for its showy display of blue-purple flowers; low filler for massed wildflower plantings and slopes; will bloom nearly year-round
 
Landscape Care:
Watering an occasional soaking; avoid summer overhead watering in clay habitats
Fertilizing none required
Pruning head back old leggy stems nearly to the ground
Pests/Diseases root rot fungus in poorly drained clay soils
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: warm dry chaparral sites, Monterey to San Diego County
Family: Lamiaceae

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