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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Tussilagininae
  8. Scalebroom

genus

Scalebroom

Lepidospartum

Traits
Includes
2 native 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • California Broomsage native
  • Nevada Scalebroom native
  • Gypsum Scalebroom

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Trees
Plant type
Perennial Shrub Tree

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native scalebroom All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • California Broomsage Lepidospartum squamatum caterpillars 1 food 1 flowers 62
  • Nevada Scalebroom Lepidospartum latisquamum

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