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Canyon Gray Sagebrush (Artemisia californica 'Canyon Gray') is a natural cultivar of California Sagebrush (Artemisia californica) from San Miguel Island, one of the Channel Islands in Southern California. This prostrate horticultural selection was collected and introduced by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.
This plant can become a large scale groundcover, forming a 1 to 2 feet high compact mat of finely textured silvery gray-green foliage, that spreads 4 to 10 feet wide. It works well on dry slopes and draping down over walls. The flowers are fairly inconspicuous, the foliage is very aromatic when brushed.
Canyon Gray Sagebrush requires little irrigation once established, though it can go semi-dormant by later summer without occasional irrigation. It is reportedly hardy to about 20-25° F.
It tolerates almost any soil type with drainage. It prefers full sun in coastal sites, and sun to part shade in inland sites. To keep the fast growing foliage dense, the plantings can look best if 'mowed' or heavily trimmed down every 1 or 2 years.
Shrub
1 - 2 ft Tall
4 - 10 ft Wide
Prostrate
Fast
Evergreen, Summer Semi-deciduous
Pleasant
Summer, Fall
Bank stabilization, Containers, Deer resistant, Groundcover, Lawn alternative
Full Sun
Low, Very Low
Max 1x / month once established
Easy
Tolerates cold to 20 - 25° F
Fast, Medium
Tolerates a wide variety of soils.
Soil PH: 5.0 - 8.0
Plantings can be kept dense if heavily pruned down ('mowed') every 1 or 2 years.
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Black Sage & Creeping Black Sage, White Sage, California Encelia, Low Chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum var. prostratum), Coyote Brush & Dwarf Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis ssp. pilularis 'Pigeon Point' and Baccharis pilularis 'Twin Peaks No. 2'), California Buckwheat (Theodore Payne California Buckwheat & Warriner Lytle Buckwheat), Sticky Monkeyflower, Woolly Bluecurls, Scrub Oaks, Toyon, Lemonadeberry, Purple Needlegrass, Yucca spp., various cactus species
Thanks to Moosa Creek Nursery and the Theodore Payne Foundation for sharing information about this plant