Cliffbush
Jamesia americana
A rock-loving mountain shrub with clusters of waxy, fragrant white-to-pink flowers and rich russet fall color. Clings to cliffs and crevices in the Rockies. Recorded as a minor food plant in Indigenous ethnobotany, without detail on which part was used.
- Family
- Hydrangeaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 6–6 ft
- Spacing
- 3–5 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- March, April
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- AZ, CA, CO, NM, NV, UT, WY