White Bursage
Ambrosia dumosa
A low, gray, intricately branched shrub that, with creosote, dominates vast stretches of the warm deserts. An unshowy but essential nurse plant and soil-stabilizer of the open flats.
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2–2 ft
- Spacing
- 1–3 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- January, February
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- foundation, container
- Native states
- AZ, CA, NV, UT