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Form: small rounded shrub; semi-woody
Seasonality: perennial
Size: 1-1.5ft, spread to 2ft
Leaves: linear, very slender, 2in long only 1/2 wide, alternate; green on top, underside silver, hairy when young
Flowers: delicate yellow flowers on stem terminals; bloom in early spring and sporadically; fresh flowers persist for a long period and then even longer when dry, becoming paperlike
Fruit: plentiful seed, like marigold
Stems/Trunks: stems are whitish or silvery, hairy
Range/Origin: Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico; in washes and gravely hillsides
Hardiness: to low teens
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- xeriscape plant
- color in cactus gardens and native plant gardens
- Exposure: full sun
- Water: okay on natural rainfall; better on once weekly in summer, once monthly in winter
- Soil: adaptable, good drainage
- Propagation: seed
- Maintenance: minimal; shear back in fall to encourage bushy rather than sprawling habit
