Yerba Buena
Clinopodium douglasii
Yerba buena is a trailing, mat-forming Pacific-coast perennial with fragrant, mint-scented leaves long brewed as tea and tiny white flowers, an easy, aromatic native groundcover for cool part shade.
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 0.2–0.5 ft
- Spacing
- 2–4 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- April, May, June, July, August, September
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- foundation, groundcover, container, erosion control
- Native states
- AK, CA, ID, MT, OR, WA