Lavender Cotton
By Lou Paun
Lavender Cotton (Santolina) - Dwarf, half-shrubby plants, of neat habit and pretty hoary foliage. One of the most distinct and useful of them is S.
Lavender Cotton (also sometimes called French Lavender, like L. Stoechas) is botanically known as Santolina Chamaecyparissus.
Green Lavender Cotton, Green Santolina
Scientific Name: Santolina rosmarinifolia L.
Synonym: Santolina virens
Family: Asteraceae ...
( Weston Lavender Cotton )
Shrubby, rounded, dwarf variety with woolly, white shoots that are densely covered with slender, toothed, very silvery-gray leaves to 1 1/2 inches long.
Santolina chamaecyparissus (Lavender cotton)
Photo/Illustration: Steve Aitken
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Lavender cotton (Santolina species): Lavender cotton is a small shrubby evergreen perennial that is often used as edging because it can be sheared into a compact hedge. There are deep green and gray foliaged species.
Lavender Cotton; aka,
Grey Santolina, or
The Petite Cypress
Some years back, Granny Artemis bought an eency tiny pot of the evergreen perennial subshrub Lavender Cotton (Santolina chamaecyparissus formerly S. incana).
Family:
Lavender Cotton
Family:
Asteraceae (also known as Compositae) ...
Green Lavender Cotton [English]: Santolina virens
Green Lavender Cotton [English]: Santolina rosmarinifolia
Green Lavender Cotton [English]: Santolina rosmarinifolia 'Morning Mist'
Green Laver [English]: Ulva lactuca ...
Rose Botanical Name Common Name Salix alba 'Tristis' Golden Weeping Willow Salix babylonica 'Babylon' Babylon Weeping Willow Salix caprea Goat (Pussy) Willow Salix caprea 'Pendula' Kilmarnock Willow Santolina chamaecyparissus Lavender Cotton ...
Santolina chamaecyparissus [Lavender Cotton] Common Name List
(plant habit, spring (before flowering)) (plant habit, spring, older plant) (branches)
(plant habit, flowering, summer) (flowers) (info) ...
Santolina is also known as Lavender Cotton. The feathery foliage smells like the medicine "Champho-Phenic." The flowers are either cream colored or yellow and appear in late summer. Santolina is traditionally used in English Knot Gardens.
Santolina chamaecyparissus
Family: Asteraceae
Lavender Cotton
Origin: Spain and Morocco ...
Teucrium marum (Cat Thyme -- Sections C & F) and Lavandula angustifolia (Lavender, Section B) are two dependable clump formers that keep the eyes beguiled in winter. The Salvia (Sage, Section E), and Santolina chamaecyparissus (Lavender Cotton, ...
Clematis (Clematis paniculata) for its mass of creamy-white flowers or The President Clematis (Clematis x `The President`), whose purple blooms will contrast comfortably with the apricot-colored roses. The gray foliage of Lavender Cotton ...
 See also: Cotton, Lavender, Chamaecyparis, Santolina c, Green
  
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