*RETAIL - Cirsium occidentale Groundcovers Dark reddish brown trunks and

Dark reddish brown trunks and stems with blue green foliage

in dense clusters of deep green with a satiny blue finish

the trunks a very warm orange/brown

held upright in spring and occasionally later

Clumping sotol growing eventually to 6 feet with three foot long narrow leaves which form a dense evergreen mound

*RETAIL - Cirsium occidentale Groundcovers Dark reddish brown trunks andUncommon thistle, native to mountains in southern Oregon and California and more well behaved than its relatives. A biennial that spends its first year as a rosette of grayish white, wooly and spiny leaves. The second year produces upright stems to 3ft tall, topped with red thistle flowers, the bracts covered in cobweb like hairs. Showy and loved by pollinators. Sun to part shade in gritty well drained soil. USDA zone 7 possibly colder. WESTERN COBWEB