The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Malacothamnus fasciculatus
Also called Southern coastal bushmallow, Chaparral Mallow, Mendocino Bush Mallow, Sant Cruz Island Bush Mallow
Chaparral bushmallow is a native shrub of southwestern California and northwestern Baja California, grown for its pink to lavender flowers and drought tolerance. It thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, and needs little water once established.
Malacothamnus fasciculatus is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, which has four varieties. It is endemic to southwestern California and northwestern Baja California.
Abbott's bushmallow · Indian Valley bushmallow · Bewildering bushmallow · San Clemente Island bushmallow · Davidson's bushmallow · Yellowstem bushmallow · Enigmatic bushmallow · Monarch bushmallow · Fremont's bushmallow · Carmel Valley bushmallow · Jones's bushmallow · Santa Lucia bushmallow
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Malacothamnus fasciculatus 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.
