artemisia cana

Questions about artemisia cana

What does artemisia cana mean?

artemisia cana means "low much-branched perennial of western United States having silvery leaves; an important browse and shelter plant".

What is another word for artemisia cana?

Close synonyms include silver sage, silver sagebrush, grey sage, gray sage, Seriphidium canum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is artemisia cana a common word?

artemisia cana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.