Apache Plume
Fallugia paradoxaApache Plume is a shrub native to Central Texas that grows 4–6 ft tall and 4–6 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms white in late spring. Deer rarely browse it. Good for bees, birds and nectar insects.
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From our guide
Village of the HillsAiry shrub with small leaves, white rose-like flowers and feathery pink seedheads that persist for months.
Why it works here
The seedheads catch low sun and glow. Utterly drought-proof on caliche and blooms over a long season.
Watch out
Needs sharp drainage. Looks sparse in a formal bed — use it where its looseness reads as texture.
The facts
6 sources- Type
- Shrub
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3+ hrs)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 4–6 ft
- Spread
- 4–6 ft
- Bloom
- Late Spring · white
- Foliage
- Semi-evergreen
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay · recorded on clay, dry, gravelly, limestone, rocky, sand, well drained
- Deer
- High — deer rarely browse it. Rarely browsed.
- Wildlife
- Supports bees, birds, browsing mammals and nectar insects
Where it grows
No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:
5 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
In the Village of the Hills guide, but not on the grower stock lists we read yet. Ask a native-plant nursery.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.