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Cotton lavender
Santolina chamaecyparissus
Growing guidance
Horticultural figures below are practitioner estimates for planning, pending expert review. The botanical record further down is sourced and verifiable.
Current-climate suitability
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Sun
Full sun
Soil moisture
free-draining, average
Heat tolerance
Up to about 44°C
Cold tolerance
Down to about -12°C
Waterlogging tolerance
1/5
Drought tolerance
5/5
Mature size
0.4–0.6 m tall, 0.8 m spread
Seasonal interest
Midsummer · Butter yellow
Maintenance
low
Wildlife supported
General wildlife value 3/5 (verified species relationships are shown only where structured data exists)
Known risks or warnings
Becomes woody unless trimmed each spring.
Toxicity: none
Verified botanical record
- Accepted scientific name
- Santolina chamaecyparissus L.
- Family
- Asteraceae (Asterales)
- Rank and status
- species · accepted
- GBIF record
- Taxon 3125933
Recorded as introduced in: Albania, Arkansas, Belgium, Bulgaria, California, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Ecuador, England, Eritrea and 35 further regions
Ranges are exactly as recorded in the GBIF source checklists and may be incomplete for widely cultivated species.
Santolina chamaecyparissus (syn. S. incana), known as cotton lavender or lavender-cotton, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the western and central Mediterranean.
Description from Wikipedia — Santolina chamaecyparissus (CC BY-SA), shortened and unedited in substance.
Native status and geographic context
- United Kingdom: climate-suitable
- United States: climate-suitable
- Australia: climate-suitable
Native status is never inferred from climate similarity. Plants restricted or invasive in a jurisdiction are excluded from recommendations there.
Demonstration data. Climate, plant and retailer records shown here are realistic samples awaiting horticultural validation and live data connections.