Changes

409 bytes added ,  17:19, 29 April 2010
no edit summary
Line 27: Line 27:  
|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.
 +
 
{{Inc|
 
{{Inc|
 
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."