Erle NickelCommon name: California Flannel Bush
Genus/species: Fremontodendron californicum
Family: Sterculiaceae
Description: An evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub, sometimes tree, from dry woodlands, canyons and mountain slopes in California and the Southwest. The grayish-dusky green leathery leaves, 2-4 inches in diameter, have three, five or seven rounded lobes and are softly hairy underneath. From this very attractive year-round foliage appear bright yellow, shallowly saucer-shaped flowers, reaching 3 inches across, in late spring and often again in midautumn. The flowers are borne singly, the flower stalks being attached to the stem opposite to the corresponding leaf petiole. The anthers are a slightly darker and orangey yellow. They are borne on one side of the upper half of the free filaments.
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