Pacific Crabapple
Malus fusca
Pacific crabapple, the only crabapple native to the West Coast, thrives in wet thickets and stream edges from California to Alaska. Fragrant white bloom yields tiny tart apples long harvested by coastal peoples.
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 15–35 ft
- Spacing
- 15–25 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- April, May
- Bloom colors
- white, pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, butterflies, larval host, mammals
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~308 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, rain garden
- Native states
- AK, CA, OR, WA