Family ³

Polygonaceae

Description ³

Evergreen shrub with shreddy bark, linear to oblong leaves and white-pink flowers. Hybridizes with E. giganteum. It is found in the Channel Islands naturally but has been introduced to the mainland.

Community ³

Coastal Sage Scrub, Chaparral

Flowering ³

Apr- Oct

Garden Location ³

H, U

Associated species ³

native bees (pollen / nectar) XERCES
predatory or parasitoid insects XERCES
butterflies

• Mormon metalmark Apodemia mormo (host) ASB
• Bramble Hairstreak Butterfly Callophrys perplexa (host) BMNA
• Comstock's Hairstreak Callophrys sheridanii comstocki (host) BMNA
• Bernardino Dotted-Blue Euphilotes bernardino (host) BMNA
• Small Dotted-Blue Philotiella speciosa (host) BMNA
• Acmon Blue Plebejus acmon (host) ASB
• Lupine Blue Plebejus lupini (host) ASB"

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Tony Rodd, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_rodd/5311875064/
2. (c) gillian360, all rights reserved, uploaded by gillian360
3. (c) gillian360, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Calflora
• CalPhotos
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Jepson eFlora
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• World Flora Online

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