This is a drought tolerant shrub which is a deciduous shrub. It has to have full sun which includes all day and full west sun. It attracts bees with nectar and or pollen. It attracts butterflies with nectar and or pollen. This shrub grows one to six feet wide. The rabbitbrush, chamisa grows best in zones 3 to 8 in the West.
This shrub has several special attributes, which are, this native shrub is an intricately branches, and aromatic which are common on alkaline soils of the inter mountain west. It has dense habit that creates an irregular cloud like form. The twigs on this shrub carries wispy green or blue-green foliage. In the fall, it has clusters of gold flowers at the branch tips, which draws bees and butterflies. It has straw-tones seed heads and it has silvery or bright green twigs that remains attractive through all of the winter. It self-sows abundantly. If this shrub gets hard pruning in late winter, then it will encourages denser branching. This shrub feeds caterpillars of the painted lady butterfly.
The rabbitbrush, chamisa has several different design ideas, which are, this shrub makes such a nice silhouette when they are put near masonry walls. This shrub is real pretty when it is planted with blue leaf grape holly, yuccas, and Apache plume.
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