Purple Hopseed Bush
Dodonaea viscosa ‘Purpurea’ · a purple-leaf hopseed bush
A fast evergreen shrub with narrow, bronzy leaves that turn purple in cool weather, an easy specimen, informal hedge or screen. It's drought tolerant once established, in soil that drains well. Colour is best in full sun, and hard freezes can kill young plants.
- Mature size
- 12 × 8 ft
- 3.5 × 2.4 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 8a–11b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry
Purple Hopseed Bush at its mature size
A mature Purple Hopseed Bush grows 12 to 16 feet tall and 8 to 12 feet wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: San Marcos Growers, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, USDA PLANTS.
Through the year
What Purple Hopseed Bush looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Narrow bronze-purple leaves.
Photos
Growing Purple Hopseed Bush
- Grows well in
- California and the desert Southwest.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Privacy screen, hedge, drought tolerant, and fast growing
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Selection of a pantropical species native to Arizona and Florida
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Purple Hopseed Bush, that’s about 8 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Purple Hopseed Bush in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.