Family ³

ASTERACEAE

Description ⁴

Coyote bush is a native evergreen shrub. Both forms are much-branched The arborescent form grows up to 12 feet (4 m) high. Female flowerheads are discoid and many flowered, without ray florets. and clustered at branch tips or in leaf axils. Male flowers are slightly smaller.

There are two forms: a tree-like form that can grow up to 12 feet high and a mounding from that is often less than 3 feet high. The prostrate form also has smaller leaves with fewer dentations, but the two forms are otherwise similar. we have both in the Garden.

Community ³

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Coastal Strand, Northern Coastal Scrub, Coastal Sage Scrub, Chaparral, Foothill Woodland, Mixed Evergreen Forest, Closed-cone Pine Forest

Flowering ³

Sept - Jan

Ethnobotany ³

Costanoan Drug (Panacea) Bocek, Barbara R. 1984 Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington. Economic Botany 38(2):240-255

Mendocino Indian Other (Hunting & Fishing Item: arrows) Chestnut, V. K. 1902 Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California. Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408.

Garden Location ³

It is found in almost every section of the garden.

Associated species ³

According to a 1951 study, there are over 221 species of insects associated with it, as well as eight species of mites. The insects, in turn, hosted an additional 62 species of parasites for a total of 291 species on coyote brush (study: Bill Tilden. Source: http://www.carpwithoutcars.org/2010/11/08/more-obsessing-about-coyote-brush/)

Sources and Credits

1. (c) 2008 Keir Morse, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=268122&one=T
2. (c) gillian360, all rights reserved, uploaded by gillian360
3. (c) gillian360, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
4. Adapted by gillian360 from a work by Public Domain, http://eol.org/data_objects/24634814

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