Apache Plume flower - Fallugia paradoxa
Apache Plume - Fallugia paradoxa has white flowers and plume-like fruit. Drought tolerant but can appreciate some garden water. Apache Plume is a very good looking in Southwest style gardens, very low maintenance plant. Will become deciduous under stress. 'Paradoxa' comes from the flowers similarity to a rose.
Grows moderately fast between 3 - 6ft. Can be used for erosion control as it creates a big strong root system. Plant in well draining soil.
Medicinal uses: The Hopi used a Fallugia paradoxa leaf infusion as a hair growth stimulant. Apache plume bush - Fallugia paradoxa growing in its native Southern California. Ranges throughout all 4 deserts of the Southwest -- Mojave, Chihuahuan, Great Basin and Sonoran. Southeastern California and southern Nevada, to southern Colorado, west Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, to northern Mexico. This plant's common name is derived from the fact that it resembles Apache war bonnets. Tewa and other native peoples used the stems of Apache Plumes to adorn arrow shafts.
Apache Plume flower - Fallugia paradoxa
Apache Plume - Fallugia paradoxa has white flowers and plume-like fruit. Drought tolerant but can appreciate some garden water. Apache Plume is a very good looking in Southwest style gardens, very low maintenance plant. Will become deciduous under stress. 'Paradoxa' comes from the flowers similarity to a rose.
Grows moderately fast between 3 - 6ft. Can be used for erosion control as it creates a big strong root system. Plant in well draining soil.
Medicinal uses: The Hopi used a Fallugia paradoxa leaf infusion as a hair growth stimulant. Apache plume bush - Fallugia paradoxa growing in its native Southern California. Ranges throughout all 4 deserts of the Southwest -- Mojave, Chihuahuan, Great Basin and Sonoran. Southeastern California and southern Nevada, to southern Colorado, west Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, to northern Mexico. This plant's common name is derived from the fact that it resembles Apache war bonnets. Tewa and other native peoples used the stems of Apache Plumes to adorn arrow shafts.