California Sagebrush (Plants of the Foothill College California Native Plant Garden)

California Sagebrush

Artemisia californica

Family ³

Asteraceae

Description ⁴

Rounded, aromatic shrub with gray-green foliage on arched stems.. Leaves with filiform to spatulate, that may be pinnately lobed (lobes filiform, 0.5–1 mm wide), faces sparsely to densely hairy. Heads are nodding at maturity, pedunculate and the florets are pistillate or bisexual, pale yellow.

Community ³

CSS; chaparral

Flowering ³

Apr - Oct

Ethnobotany ³

Cahuilla Drug (Cold Remedy, Gynecological Aid, Pediatric Aid, Smoke Plant) Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel 1972 Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants. Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press (p. 42)
Costanoan Drug (Analgesic, Antirheumatic (External), Cold Remedy, Cough Medicine, Dermatological Aid, Respiratory Aid, Toothache Remedy) Bocek, Barbara R. 1984 Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington. Economic Botany 38(2):240-255 (p. 25)
Mahuna Drug (Gynecological Aid) Romero, John Bruno 1954 The Botanical Lore of the California Indians. New York. Vantage Press, Inc. (p. 14)
Luiseno Other (Ceremonial Items) Sparkman, Philip S. 1908 The Culture of the Luiseno Indians. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234 (p. 199)

Garden Location ³

Associated species ³

Nesting material for native bees (Xerces society).

Sources and Credits

(c) 1999 California Academy of Sciences, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=19387&one=T
(c) gillian360, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
Adapted by gillian360 from a work by (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4954805

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