Tiquilia canescens

Shrubby tiquilia, Shrubby Tiquilia

Family: Ehretiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Shrubby tiquilia is a California native perennial subshrub found in arid regions of the southwestern deserts at moderate elevations. Flowering from spring to early summer, this plant produces small white flowers clustered in leaf axils with delicate, barely visible petals. Growing with multiple alternate branches covered in spreading hairs, it forms a compact shrubby structure 15 to 30 centimeters tall. Its leaves are notably white-tomentose, with narrow elliptic blades 5 to 13 millimeters long, featuring entire margins and spiny-ciliate edges. The plant produces small spherical fruits with four distinct grooves, containing ovoid nutlets 2 to 2.5 millimeters in size.

California counties: Riverside, San Bernardino, Imperial, Nevada, Los Angeles

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