Scientific Name: Purshia tridentata
Common Name: antelope bitterbrush
Family Name: Rosaceae
Origin: North America
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Shrub - deciduous
Mature Size: 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Oval - horizontal
Texture: Fine
Landscape Uses: Mixed shrub border
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Leathery, Pubescent, Spatulate, Palmately lobed
Flowers: Flowers solitary, Yellow, Apr-May-Jun-Jul
Fruit: Aggregate fruit, Achene, Brown, Aug-Sep
Key ID Features:
Leaves alternate, clustered, apex 3-lobed, pubescent, most 1-2cm long; flowers with about 25 stamens, petals 5-9mm long, creamy-yellow; achenes about 15mm long with a persistent style. Winter ID: woolly young twigs.