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Santolina chamaecyparissus
Santolina chamaecyparissus (syn. S. incana), known as cotton lavender or lavender-cotton, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the western and central Mediterranean.
14 branches of this group, most-observed first

Lavender-cotton
speciesSantolina chamaecyparissus

Provencal lavender-cotton
speciesSantolina decumbens

Minorcan lavender-cotton
speciesSantolina magonica

Santolina ericoides
speciesSantolina ericoides

Corsican lavender-cotton
speciesSantolina corsica

Apuan mountain lavender-cotton
speciesSantolina pinnata

Green lavender-cotton
speciesSantolina virens

Neapolitan lavender-cotton
speciesSantolina neapolitana

Santolina villosa
speciesSantolina villosa

Tuscan lavender-cotton
speciesSantolina etrusca

Sardinian lavender-cotton
speciesSantolina insularis

Pyrenean lavender-cotton
speciesSantolina benthamiana

Ligurian lavender-cotton
speciesSantolina ligustica
Santolina intricata
speciesSantolina intricata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1504284.

