Artemisia californica, also known as California sagebrush, is a species of western North American shrub in the sunflower family.
Artemisia californica
Young green foliage
Specimen in Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden
Close-up of foliage with dry flowers
Coastal sage scrub, also known as coastal scrub, CSS, or soft chaparral, is a low scrubland plant community of the California coastal sage and chaparral subecoregion, found in coastal California and northwestern coastal Baja California. It is within the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion, of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome.
Coastal sage scrub in the Santa Monica Mountains. Note slope effect.
Coastal sage scrub on the Santa Rosa Plateau, with oak woodland in background.
Southern coastal scrub in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana) and southern coastal scrub, Santa Rosa Island.