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|familia=Lamiaceae
|genus=Trichostema
|genus=Trichostema
|species=lanatum
|species=lanatum
|common_name=romero or Woolly Blue Curls
|common_name=romero or Woolly Blue Curls, Blue curls
|Min ht metric=cm
|habit=herbaceous
|habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|Min ht box=2
|Min ht metric=ft
|Max ht box=5
|Max ht metric=ft
|height_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|Max wd box=2
|Max wd metric=ft
|width_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|exposure=sun
|sun_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|features=flowers
|flower_season=early spring, mid spring, late spring, early summer, mid summer, late summer
|flower_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|flowers=blue, purple
|Temp Metric=°F
|Temp Metric=°F
|jumpin=This is the plant information box - for information on light; water; zones; height; etc. If it is mostly empty you can help grow this page by clicking on the edit tab and filling in the blanks!
|min_zone=6
|max_zone=10
|image=Trichostema lanatum flowers 2005-03-24.jpg
|image=Trichostema lanatum flowers 2005-03-24.jpg
|image_width=240
|image_width=240
|image_caption=Trichostema lanatum
|image_caption=Trichostema lanatum
}}
}}
'''''Trichostema lanatum''''' ('''romero''' or '''Woolly Blue Curls''') is a small [[evergreen]] [[shrub]] or [[sub-shrub]] native to arid coastal regions of [[California]]. It is many-branched and grows to 1.5 m (5 ft) tall, with narrow, pointed green leaves. The smooth-petaled blue flowers are born in dense clusters, with the stem and calyces covered in woolly hairs of blue, pink, or white.
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Trichostema lanatum, Benth. A perennial shrubby plant with rosemary-like lvs. and cymes of fls. in a naked terminal thyrse: lvs. narrow-linear, 1-nerved, sessile, margins revolute: calyx and corolla covered with dense violet or purple wool; corolla 1/2 in. long. S. Calif.—A very handsome shrub, known as "ramero."
Trichostema lanatum, Benth. A perennial shrubby plant with rosemary-like lvs. and cymes of fls. in a naked terminal thyrse: lvs. narrow-linear, 1-nerved, sessile, margins revolute: calyx and corolla covered with dense violet or purple wool; corolla 1/2 in. long. S. Calif.—A very handsome shrub, known as "ramero."