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Scale Broom
Lepidospartum squamatum
  
About Scale Broom (Lepidospartum squamatum) 5 Nurseries Carry This Plant Lepidospartum squamatum is a species of flowering shrub in the daisy family known by the common name California broomsage. It is native to the mountains, valleys, and deserts of southern California and Baja California, where it grows in sandy, gravelly soils in a number of habitat types, especially dry alluvial habitat such as arroyos. It is considered an indicator species for the alluvial scrub habitat type in this region. It is also known from neighboring Arizona. This is a large shrub often exceeding two meters in height which takes a spreading, rounded form, its branches coated in woolly fibers and stubby leaves no more than 3 millimeters long. The flower cluster is a single flower head or small cluster of up to 5 heads at the ends of branches. The heads are discoid, bearing many yellow tubular disc florets and no ray florets. The fruit is a narrow achene a few millimeters long with a dull white to light brown pappus on top. As the fruits mature and the flower parts fall away the flower cluster takes on a cottony look due to all the pappi.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Shrub

Size
Size
6.6 ft tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
Cream

Flowering Season
Flowering Season
Summer, Fall

Wildlife Supported
 


 
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Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Full Sun

Moisture
Moisture
Low

Nurseries
Nurseries

Ease of Care
Ease of Care
Moderately Easy

Soil Drainage
Soil Drainage
Fast, Medium, Slow

Soil Description
Soil Description
Adaptable

Propagation
Propagation?
For propagating by seed: No treatment.

Sunset Zones
Sunset Zones?
7*, 8*, 9*, 10, 11, 14*, 15*, 16*, 18*, 19*, 20*, 21*, 22, 23, 24

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Sandy or gravelly washes, stream terraces

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 2.6" - 37.7", Summer Precipitation: 0.13" - 2.39", Coldest Month: 32.0" - 61.5", Hottest Month: 59.6" - 90.0", Humidity: 0.74" - 46.84", Elevation: -121" - 7022"

Alternative Names
Common Names: California Broomsage, California Broomshrub, Scale-broom, Scalebroom


Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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