Eriodictyon trichocalyx

Hairy yerba santa

Family: Namaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Hairy yerba santa is a California native shrub found in rocky or chaparral habitats at elevations of moderate height. Flowering from spring to summer, this plant produces white to lavender flowers in small funnel-shaped clusters with dense gray-hairy buds. Growing to less than 2 meters tall with twigs that can be glabrous or hairy, it forms a distinctive shrubby structure. Its leaves are lance-linear to narrow-oblong, 3 to 14 centimeters long, with sticky upper surfaces and dense woolly undersides, and margins that curl slightly underneath. The plant's flowers emerge with notably long, dense hairs on the calyx lobes, giving it a distinctive and textured appearance.

California counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Ventura, El Dorado, Tulare

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