Artemisia arbuscula

Low sagebrush, Low Sagebrush

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Low sagebrush is a California native shrub found in alpine and subalpine regions at elevations suitable for its compact growth. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces small discoid flower heads 2 to 4.5 millimeters in diameter arranged in narrow, panicle-like clusters. Growing as a mounded, gray evergreen shrub less than 30 centimeters tall, it develops much-branched stems with a distinctive compact form. Its leaves are wedge-shaped, 3 to 9 millimeters long, typically three-lobed with a gray-green coloration and fine hairiness. The plant produces tiny fruits less than one millimeter long, lightly dotted with resin glands and colored a pale brown.

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.