About Eriodictyon traskiae Eastw.
Eriodictyon traskiae can reach a maximum height of two meters. Dense white woolly hairs cover its twigs and foliage, giving the entire bush a gray-green appearance. Its leaves are oval-shaped, measuring between 3 and 14 centimeters long, and 1 to 7 centimeters wide. The leaves are woolly, crinkled, with edges that roll under, and may have small teeth. This bush produces flowers in dense, fuzzy clusters. Each individual blossom is glandular, ranges in color from white to brownish-purple, and is less than one centimeter wide. The fruit is a tiny capsule up to three millimeters wide, which holds between two and four very small seeds. This shrub is endemic to California. It grows on chaparral slopes in the central Coast Ranges and the Southern California Transverse Ranges.
