California Broomsage, a casual reference for the Taxonomical label of Lepidospartum Squamatum, is an aesthetically agreeable plant native to the area around Pioneertown. Usually shrub like reaching up to 6 feet tall, it can form tightly packed groups creating a wide obstacle. Newer, dark green, slender stems, sprout erect from older, supporting gray trunk branches, giving the overall effect of a drawf tree.
Lepidospartum Squamatum is found in Southern California desert biomes as part of Creosote Bush Scrub and Joshua Tree Woodland, but also occurs in Coastal Sage Scrub, Chaparral, and mountains, including the foothills leading up to Big Bear Lake. Throughout its native range, it prefers Alluvial areas where loose rocks, silt, clay, sand and other sediment have been bonded by water and deposited in a non marine environment. It also competes well where water temporarily fills and flows after sufficient precipitation, these dry creek beds, also known as Arroyos or Washes are especially active after flash floods.
California Broomsage is considered to be an indicator species, the presence of such organisms can provide information about the overall wellbeing of an ecological region, often more informative than chemical testing. L. Squamatum bears beautiful yellow flowers August through November, often covering the plant with alluring blooms which sway peacefully in the afternoon mountain breeze.
Float in hot suns burning hue, fight all for a drop of dew, roll with wind so smooth and slender, flowers fire spire splender
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