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Acaena pinnatifida
Argentinian biddy-biddy is a low, mat-forming perennial in the rose family, native to coastal California and southern South America. It is grown as a ground cover or rock garden plant and needs good drainage and sun.
Acaena pinnatifida is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It is known by the common names Argentinian biddy-biddy and California sheepbur. It grows in California (United States), Argentina and Chile. The population from California is sometimes considered to be a distinct species or variety from the population in South America.
Acaena pinnatifida is known from California (in the United States), and in South America (Chile to Argentina). In North America, the species grows on roadsides, sand dunes, rocky slopes and coastal grasslands.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acaena pinnatifida 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.
