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'''''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."

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