| Scientific Name: | Santolina chamaecyparissus |
| Common Name: | lavender cotton |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Bedding plant, Container planting, Dried flower or fruit, Fragrance, Group or mass planting, Rock garden, Sheared hedge, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Soft flexible, Tomentose, Distinctive smell, Linear, Orbicular, Other, Pectinate |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, linear, most 2-3cm long x 3-5mm wide, pinnatifid with grayish-white blobs ~1mm wide that are arranged geometrically (like a hebe); flower heads 5-12mm wide, yellow disk florets, no ray florets. | |