- Perennial with an aromatic sage-like odor from the leaves
- Happiest in light shade or full sun
- Grows tall and lush in wetter richer soils 3 to 5 feet tall
- Diminishes the ill effects of poison oak and stinging nettles if you rub the leaf oils on the skin as soon as possible
- Birds eat the seeds and use the silvery leaves as cover
- Deer resistant
- Found in all sections