Background, Shrub Border, Swimming Pool, Walkways, With Rocks
Special Uses
Hedge, Screen, Mass Planting
Attracts Wildlife
Butterflies
Information by: Kathleen Moore Photographer: Janet Rademacher
Description
Notes
Evergreen shrub that maintains a tight rounded form without any pruning. It grows to 5' x 5' at a moderate pace. Blooms are lavender and provide signficant summer color, as do other lecophyllums.. Foliage is bright green. Accepts reflected sun. Attracts butterflies. Chihuahuan Desert native.
Frost tolerant to 10 F.
Also try Leucophyllum pruinosum and Leucophyllum zygophyllum.