Hansen's Northwest Native Plant Database

Kingdom Plantae – Plants

Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants

Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants

Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants

Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons

Subclass Asteridae

Order Asterales

Family Asteraceae – Aster family

Genus Baccharis L. – baccharis

Species Baccharis pilularis DC. – coyotebrush 

Coyote Bush is a tough evergreen shrub with thick shiny triangular leaves.

Its native territory is primarily the California and Oregon Coast, USDA zones 8-9.

Little can deter this plant from growing, not heat, wind or lack of water; it is even fire and deer resistant.

This 1-2 foot tall plant will make a great ground or bank cover, or when grown singly will develop into a small rounded shrub.

The flowers are yellow and the female plants will produce fuzzy seed heads.

Early Native Americans used parts of this plant to make a tea which relieved poison oak rash.

Photo at right was taken by J. Smith at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center.