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Portuguese Lavender Cotton

Santolina impressa

Portuguese Lavender Cotton
Photo: (c) Duarte Frade, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
C. Portugal
Climate
temperate

About

Santolina impressa is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, endemic to southwest Portugal specifically the area between Setúbal and Sines. It inhabits psammophilous scrub in stabilized dunes (often paleodunes), sometimes under pine forests. On acidic sandy soils, becoming particularly abundant in somewhat disturbed places.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Santolina impressa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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