SANTOLINA. Mediterranean area. Compact, mostly shrubby daisies with crowded narrow, usually dissected leaves. The leaves possess various scents that speak of the chaparral. They display small button shaped, yellow to whitish flower heads on long stalks above the foliage in summer. They respond well to pruning and are useful in borders and low hedges. The plants are long-lived and will eventually develop picturesque trunks. Sun, most soils, little or no watering when established. Hardy to 0^oF. or below.

chamaecyparissus. Lavender cotton. The best known species. It is a dense grey shrublet, growing 1-2’ high. The branches are crowded and closely set with narrow, feathery 1" leaves. Bright yellow flower heads, a little over ½” broad, are carried well above the foliage. There are a number of selected forms. ‘Compacta’ is a mounding shrub, growing only about 1’ tall, with extremely congested branches and silvery grey leaves.

ericoides. Plants offered under this name are close to the more familiar S. virens, though more compact, at least in the current form. It grows about 2’ tall and nearly round. The many short branches are closely set with dark green leaves. Creamy yellow flower heads are massed over the plant in summer.

neapolitana. Similar to S. chamaecyparissus. Plants are around 2’ tall at maturity, densely packed with nearly white foliage. The flower heads are bright yellow in the typical form, pale yellow in the selection ‘Lemon Queen’.