Fallugia paradoxa

Apache plume

Family: Rosaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Apache plume is a native shrub found in the eastern Mojave Desert in dry, rocky pinyon and juniper woodland at elevations of 1,000 to 2,200 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces white flowers 10 to 25 millimeters wide with multiple delicate petals. Growing as a multi-branched shrub less than 2 meters tall with gray-white bark that peels, it develops an intricate, somewhat erect form. Its leaves are deeply lobed with linear segments, densely hairy on the upper surface and rusty-scaled underneath, with margins rolled tightly. The fruit is a distinctive silky-hairy achene with a feathery, purple-tinted style measuring 30 to 50 millimeters long.

Habitat: Dry, +- rocky slopes in pinyon/juniper woodland

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 1000-2200 m

Bioregions: e DMoj

California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo, Santa Barbara

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