Adenostoma fasciculatum

Chamise, greasewood, Greasewood

Family: Rosaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Chamise is a California native shrub found in coastal mountain ranges and interior foothills in chaparral and woodland habitats at elevations of 100 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces white to cream-colored flowers in dense clusters less than 4 centimeters long. Growing as a multi-branched shrub up to 4 meters tall with a distinctive gray-brown trunk and compact form, it develops a burled base with numerous stiff, sickle-shaped branches. Its leaves are small, clustered tightly along branches, stiff and glabrous, creating a dense, compact silhouette. The fruit is a small, ribbed obovoid structure that remains closely attached to the plant's tight branching pattern.

California counties: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Kern, San Luis Obispo, Riverside, San Diego, Monterey, Tulare, Tuolumne, Orange, San Bernardino, Contra Costa, Ventura, Imperial, Santa Cruz, Glenn, El Dorado, Lake, Tehama, Solano, San Benito, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Placer, Sonoma, Amador, Napa, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Butte, Calaveras, Shasta, Trinity, Yolo, Alameda, Colusa, Fresno, Humboldt, Yuba, Sacramento, Stanislaus

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.