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Abrotanella inconspicua

Abrotanella inconspicua
Photo: Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0

Abrotanella inconspicua is a small cushion-forming daisy-family subshrub native to the South Island and Stewart Island of New Zealand, growing in cold subalpine and subarctic climates. It is a wild alpine species rarely grown in gardens, so care depends on mimicking cool, open mountain conditions.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and avoid waterlogging, which alpine cushion plants dislike.
Soil
Free-draining gritty mineral mix with good organic content.
Temperature
Tolerates cold; prefers cool conditions, roughly 5–18 °C, and suffers in heat.
How easy
Hard
Native range
New Zealand South I.
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Abrotanella inconspicua is a member of the daisy family and is native to Stewart Island and the South Island of New Zealand. The flowers of this plant are coloured cream and yellow.

Other Abrotanella plants

Abrotanella caespitosa · Abrotanella diemii · Notched Moss Bog · Abrotanella fertilis · Abrotanella filiformis · Tasmanian Cushion Plant · Abrotanella linearifolia · Abrotanella linearis · Abrotanella muscosa · Snow-wort · Abrotanella papuana · Abrotanella patearoa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Abrotanella inconspicua by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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