Lavender-cotton

Subshrubs, silvery-gray to white. Leaf blades 1-pinnately lobed, 10–20(–40) × 1–3(–5) mm. Peduncles 3–6 cm. Phyllaries carinate, apices of inner rounded, ± lacerate to fimbrillate. Corollas 3–4 mm, gland-dotted. Cypselae 2.5–3 mm, angles sometimes narrowly winged. 2n = 18.

Flowering Mar–Oct. Disturbed sites, abandoned plantings; 0–400 m; introduced; Ark., Calif., Ga., La., Mass., N.C., S.C.; s Europe; n Africa.

Santolina chamaecyparissus is widely cultivated and probably persists in the flora area in states other than those listed here.