Description: Short, slender, erect, aromatic shrub with small heads of creamy-white flowers 
Height: To 3 ft rarely (30 ft) 
Flowers: Fragrant, short tubular in short cluster (spikes), creamy-white to yellowish with yellow centers; throughout year after rainfall 
Fruit: Dry fruit, splits into 2 nutlets 
Foliage: Simple, opposite, deciduous; blades oblong, green, to 2.5 inches long 
Spines: Unarmed 
Bark: Light brown 
Growth Rate: Medium 

Requirements: 
Sun: Full sun 
Soil: Caliche, gravelly, loamy, rocky 
Drainage: Well 
Water: Low, drought tolerant 
Maintenance: None 
Propagation: Seed, root partitions, or cuttings 

Native Habitat: Chaparrals, open desert scrub, roadsides 

Wildlife Use: Leaves - White-tailed Deer, caterpillars of Bazochi Hairstreak Nectar - butterflies 

Comments: Short, often-flowering, and attractive to butterflies