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Eriodictyon californicum (California yerba santa)

Synonyms: Eriodictyon californicum glutinosum; Eriodictyon glutinosum; Wigandia californica (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Eriodictyon californicum is a species of plant within the Boraginaceae family. It is also known as yerba santa, mountain balm, consumptive's weed and bear weed.
View Wikipedia Record: Eriodictyon californicum

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Spring
Drought Tolerance [1]  High
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [1]  High
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [1]  8 months 10 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Fall
Growth Form [1]  Colonizing
Growth Period [1]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [1]  Moderate
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Propagation [1]  Bare Root, Container, Cutting, Seed
Root Depth [1]  6 inches (15 cm)
Scent [2]  The foliage is very aromatic.
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [1]  Medium
Seeds Per [1]  40000 / lb (88185 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Erect
Specific Gravity [3]  0.54
Structure [2]  Shrub
Usage [2]  The leaves have been woven into skirts and aprons;
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  Moderate
Flower Color [1]  Purple
Foliage Color [1]  Dark Green
Fruit Color [1]  Brown
Flower Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Fruit Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Height [2]  7.38 feet (2.25 m)
Width [2]  6.56 feet (2 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 6 Low Temperature: -10 F° (-23.3 C°) → 0 F° (-17.8 C°)
Light Preference [1]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [1]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [1]  Infertile
Water Use [1]  Low
Screening - Summer [1]  Porous
Screening - Winter [1]  Porous
View Plants For A Future Record : Eriodictyon californicum

Predators

Archips eleagnana (Fruit-Tree Leafroller Moth)[4]
Ethmia arctostaphylella[4]
Papilio eurymedon (Pale swallowtail)[5]
Spilococcus eriogoni (eriogonum mealybug)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Aphyllon fasciculatum (clustered broomrape)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0