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Clinopodium chandleri
Also called San Miguel Savory
San Miguel calamint (also called San Miguel savory) is a rare, aromatic shrub of the mint family from chaparral in southern California and northern Baja California. It is grown mainly for conservation and native gardens, and it needs well-drained, lean soil and sun.
Clinopodium chandleri is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name San Miguel savory. It is native to northern Baja California and several areas of southern California, where it can be found in mountain chaparral. A fragrant plant with white flowers, it is one of southern California's rarest shrubs.
This species is distributed from southern California in the United States to northwestern Baja California in Mexico. It is found throughout rocky slopes and chaparral in the Peninsular Ranges, from the Santa Anas south to Ensenada. It only occurs on specialized soils, like metavolcanic substrate. Where it overlaps with Clinopodium ganderi, northeast of Ensenada, it forms a hybrid species.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
