Boething Treeland Farms grows over 1,000 varieties of trees, shrubs, perennials and specialty plants on 9 California nurseries to serve the wholesale landscape and nursery industries throughout the Western United States and beyond.
Plant Type: Shrubs
Evergreen-Deciduous: Evergreen
Overall Mature Size: Medium
Also Grown As: Bush
Mature Height & Spread: 4-6' x 5-7'
Natural Growth Habit: Mounding, Rounded
Native To: Mexico, Southwest
Exposure: Full Sun
Water: Medium Water, Low Water
Flower Color: Lavender / Purple / Violet
Bloom Time: Spring, Summer, Fall
Special Features: Attracts Birds/Butterflies/Bees / Cold Hardy / Deer Resistant / Desert Conditions / Drought Resistant / Fire Resistant/Retardant / Fragrant / Hedge / Intermountain Conditions / Screen / Seacoast Conditions
Container Sizes: #5
Sunset Garden Zones: 7-24
USDA Hardiness Zone: 7-11
Leucophyllum laevigatum is a broadleaf, evergreen shrub with a rounded, mounding habit and a loose, spiky, and angular branching pattern. It features small, smooth, blue-green to olive-green leaves and light lavender, violet, or deep purple flowers. It blooms spring to fall and frequently bursts into bloom immediately following rain or humidity spikes. Blooming can sometimes be started by overhead watering. Uses include privacy screens, hedges, mass plantings, or as a specimen plant in desert and arid landscapes. Excellent in desert and seacoast landscapes and tolerates most intermountain conditions. Requires full, intense sun to reflective sun to maintain its dense habit and bloom well. It has low shade tolerance and will perform poorly. It needs well-drained soil. It handles rocky, sandy, alkaline, limestone-based, or poor soils but will fail in chronically wet or soggy sites. Regular irrigation when installed and acclimating; low water needs once established. Irrigation should be slow and deep. Deer-resistant. Resistant to Verticillium wilt. Fire-resistant. Cold hardy to 10°F.
Leucophyllum laevigatum is a broadleaf, evergreen shrub with a rounded, mounding habit and a loose, spiky, and angular branching pattern. It features small, smooth, blue-green to olive-green leaves and light lavender, violet, or deep purple flowers. It blooms spring to fall and frequently bursts into bloom immediately following rain or humidity spikes. Blooming can sometimes be started by overhead watering. Uses include privacy screens, hedges, mass plantings, or as a specimen plant in desert and arid landscapes. Excellent in desert and seacoast landscapes and tolerates most intermountain conditions. Requires full, intense sun to reflective sun to maintain its dense habit and bloom well. It has low shade tolerance and will perform poorly. It needs well-drained soil. It handles rocky, sandy, alkaline, limestone-based, or poor soils but will fail in chronically wet or soggy sites. Regular irrigation when installed and acclimating; low water needs once established. Irrigation should be slow and deep. Deer-resistant. Resistant to Verticillium wilt. Fire-resistant. Cold hardy to 10°F.
