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Mexican Cliffrose
Purshia mexicana
  
About Mexican Cliffrose (Purshia mexicana) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant Purshia mexicana is a species of perennial flowering small tree in the rose family known by the common name Mexican cliffrose. It is native to western-northern Mexico, the region of the Sierra Madre Occidental cordillera. A different phase which was published as var. stansburyana (but should have been stansburiana) and which is now treated as Purshia stansburyana occurs in the southwestern United States, centered on the Colorado Plateau regions of Utah-Colorado, and Arizona-New Mexico; also much of the Great Basin mountains to the west. The range of Mexican Cliffrose is from the western Mexican Plateau in the south, and the southern Sierra Madre Occidental cordillera north to a small region of northwest Sonora; it has a continuous range in the cordillera from Chihuahua south through Durango and Zacatecas, all mostly north of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, though a few scattered locales do occur in the belt. In the United States, the range is centered on the Colorado Plateau mostly of central and southern Utah, central and northern Arizona, the entire desert and rock-formation Canyon Lands region; the range continues east into southwest Colorado and neighboring western New Mexico. The range continues westwards into the Great Basin desert regions, and southwest into the Mojave Desert including eastern California; scattered locales occur in central New Mexico, and possibly central Baja California.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Shrub

Size
Size
10 ft tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
Pink

Wildlife Supported
 


 
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Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Full Sun, Part Shade

Common uses
Common uses
Hedges

Propagation
Propagation?
For propagating by seed: No treatment; sow outdoors in fall. For maximum germination, needs diurnal fluctuation from 50° to 86°F. One mo. stratification first hastens germination (Heit 1971) or 2.5 mos. stratification (Stidham et al. 1980).

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Dry places

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 5.4" - 18.4", Summer Precipitation: 0.90" - 3.90", Coldest Month: 27.9" - 52.3", Hottest Month: 50.7" - 78.0", Humidity: 2.84" - 30.37", Elevation: 2782" - 9373"


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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