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Turricula parryi
Also called Common turricula, Poodle Dog Bush
Eriodictyon parryi, or poodle-dog bush, is a tall California and Baja California mountain shrub with purple flowers that colonises ground disturbed by fire and landslides. It is rarely grown in gardens because it is difficult to cultivate and its foliage and sap are a severe skin irritant.
Eriodictyon parryi or poodle-dog bush is a tall California mountain shrub with showy purple flowers, which is notable for secreting a severe skin irritant. It is an opportunistic species that grows mostly in areas that have been disturbed by fire. In a dry early spring in Southern California, its semi-dormant leaves can droop and curl into coils like locks of curly hair, hence the popular name based on the metaphor of a poodle's natural hair.
The plant is endemic to southern California and Baja California. In Baja California it rarely appears in the southern Sierra de Juarez and the western Sierra de San Pedro Martir as a fire-following shrub. It is particularly common in the Transverse Ranges, and also occurs in the Coast Ranges south of San Luis Obispo, and in the Sierra Nevada as far north as Kings Canyon.
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