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Anemopsis californica
Also called Apache Beads, Lizard Tail
Yerba mansa is a native perennial herb of wet, alkaline marsh and creek edges in southwestern North America. It grows best in very wet soil or shallow water and needs constant moisture.
The monotypic genus Anemopsis has only one species, Anemopsis californica, with the common names yerba mansa or lizard tail.
It is a perennial herb in the lizard tail family (Saururaceae) and prefers very wet soil or shallow water.
It is native to southwestern North America in northwest Mexico and the Southwestern United States from California to Oklahoma and Texas to Kansas to Oregon. It grows in wet, alkaline marsh and creek edges.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anemopsis 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.
