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Horticultural selection from Artemisia californica from Montara Mountain south of san Francisco. If you need an unusual groundcover that can tolerate the hot dry summer, try this low, spreading artemisia out. This lovely groundcover sagebrush has a nice neat, dense form with aromatic gray green foliage. It's a great way to add texture, color contrast and fragrance in a drought-tolerant garden. Despite it's north coast origins we have found 'Montara' to thrive in hot inland conditions with almost no supplmental water. Some speculate that it is a natural hybrid between Artemisia calif. and Artemisia pycnocephala. This is fast becoming a landscaping favorite, but is not commercially grown in many nurseries and so is hard to find.
'Montara' was selected from a cutting at Montara Mountain by Roger Raiche and introduced by Wildwood nursery in 1987. Tolerates almost any soil type. Prefers sun in coastal sites, and sun or part shade in inland sites. Selected for the garden.
Shrub
1 - 2 ft Tall
3 - 6 ft Wide
Mounding
Fast
Summer Deciduous
Pleasant
Summer, Fall
Bank stabilization, Deer resistant, Groundcover, Lawn alternative
Full Sun
Low, Very Low
Easy
15
Fast, Medium, Slow
Tolerates a wide variety of soils.
Soil PH: 5.0 - 8.0
7*, 8*, 9*, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Black Sage (Salvia mellifera), White Sage (Salvia apiana), California Encelia, Chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum var. fasciculatum), Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis ssp. pilularis), California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum var. fasciculatum), Sticky Monkeyflower (Mimulus viscidus), Woolly Bluecurls (Trichostema lanatum), Scrub Oaks, Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia), Lemonadeberry, Yucca spp., various cactus species
Thanks to Moosa Creek Nursery and the Theodore Payne Foundation for sharing information about this plant