Apache Plume
Fallugia paradoxa
An airy desert shrub bearing single white roses followed by feathery pink seed plumes that glow in the light. It blooms and fruits at once and stabilizes dry, rocky slopes.
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 6–6 ft
- Spacing
- 4–6 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, mammals, songbirds
- Landscape uses
- border
- Native states
- AZ, CA, CO, NM, NV, OK, TX, UT