Unlike herbaceous perennial plants that die back to the ground each winter, subshrubs maintain a woody framework of branches from which new growth emerges in spring. These basically, are small shrubs.

Many non-sprouting subshrubs and woody species were restricted to elevations below 3,000 ft (ca. 900 m), sunny exposures, and young stands. Chaparral succession, both in composition and rate of change ...

What I like about subshrubs is that they can be plopped into a hole and will fluff up and fill it in no time, unlike some perennials that may take a couple of years to get real heft. Many also ...