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Eriodictyon crassifolium
Also called Thick Leaf Yerba Santa, Thick Leaved Yerba Santa
Thickleaf yerba santa is a woolly, hairy shrub from the Namaceae family, native to dry chaparral and hillsides of California and Baja California. It is grown mainly as a drought-tolerant native shrub in dry, sunny gardens.
Eriodictyon crassifolium, or thickleaf yerba santa, is a shrub in the family Namaceae. "Crassifolium" means "thick leaf". The plant has thick, woolly leaves. It is native to California and Baja California.
It is native to California and Baja California, where it grows in several types of habitat, including chaparral, in the coastal and inland hills and mountains, mainly in the Southern California part of the state, south of the latitude of the Santa Barbara/San Luis Obispo county line and extending from the coast inland through the Coast Ranges and Transverse Ranges. In Baja California, it is found in the vicinity of La Misión, in the northern part of the state.
It was traditionally used by the Chumash people to keep airways open for proper breathing.
Indian Knob mountainbalm · Narrowleaf yerba santa · California yerba santa · Lompoc yerba santa · Sessile Leaved Yerba Santa · Woolly yerba santa · Pacific yerba santa · Hairy yerba santa · Yerba Santa
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eriodictyon crassifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
