fire resistant trees

	Big pod ceanothus Ceanothus megacarpus Evergreen shrub 3 to 12 feet tall with grayish brown or reddish bark. Young branchlets have fine stiff hairs.
	Bigberry manzanita Arctostaphylos glauca Evergreen shrub or small tree with crooked branches and smooth red bark that readily peels off. Young twigs appear waxy green.
	Black sage Purple Sage Salvia mellifera/Salvia leucophylla Multi-branched shrubs 3 to 6 feet. Young stems square, white-green.
	buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum Low, spreading semi-woody subshrub grows to 3 feet tall.
	california bay Umbellularia californica Large shrub or tree up to 100 feet tall and wide, rarely grows to these dimensions.
	California holly Heteromeles arbutifolia Large shrub or multi-trunk tree from 15 to 25 feet high and wide
	california juniper Juniperus californica Large shrub or tree from 5 to 40 feet tall. Generally as a shrub on the desert slopes.
	california sagebrush Coastal Sagebrush Artemisia californica Gray woody subshrub grows 2 to 5 feet tall.
	Chamise Greasewood Adenostoma fasciculatum Medium to large shrub grows 5 to 12 feet high and 5 to 8 feet wide.
	Chaparral Broom (Coyote Bush) Bacchari's Pilularis A prostrate shrub grows 4 to 12 feet high spreading 4 to 8 feet across.