Adenostoma fasciculatum var. prostratum

Prostrate chamise

Family: Rosaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Prostrate chamise is a California native shrub found in the central coastal and Channel Islands bioregions on dry slopes and ridges in chaparral at elevations below 750 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces white flowers in compact clusters. Growing as a low-spreading shrub less than 0.5 meters tall with decumbent branches, it forms a mounded, prostrate habit. Its leaves are narrow, generally linear to oblanceolate, with acute tips measuring 1.9 to 6.3 millimeters long. The twigs are glabrous, giving the plant a smooth, refined appearance in its native chaparral habitat.

Habitat: dry slopes, ridges, chaparral

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: < 750 m

Bioregions: CCo, ChI.

California counties: Santa Barbara, Los Angeles

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