Artemisia californica
Canyon Grey

Silvery, soft, and impossibly graceful as it tumbles down a slope, Artemisia californica 'Canyon Grey' is a prostrate form of California Sagebrush selected from Santa Cruz Island for its low, spreading habit. Feathery, finely divided silver-gray foliage flows outward in a billowing mound just 1 to 2 feet tall but spreading 6 to 10 feet wide, releasing a clean, herbaceous sage fragrance the moment it's brushed. Tiny, inconspicuous yellowish flowers appear in late summer and fall, but it's the foliage that does the real work here — a beautiful, scented year-round groundcover.

A bombproof California native perennial hardy in zones 7-10, 'Canyon Grey' is deeply drought-tolerant, fire-resistant, deer-resistant, and one of the toughest evergreen groundcovers around. It thrives in full sun on lean, well-drained soil, asks for no summer water once established, and supports a remarkable diversity of native pollinators and beneficial insects.

Use it to drape over retaining walls, soften the edge of a path, blanket a sunny bank, or carpet a dry slope where its silvery foliage will catch the light beautifully against deeper greens. A true workhorse of the California-native landscape.

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