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Arnicastrum guerrerense

Arnicastrum guerrerense is a perennial herb in the daisy family with yellow flowers, known only from high-elevation pine and fir forest in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico. It is a wild species with little cultivation history, so care is mostly inferred from its montane habitat.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade
Water
Water when the top of the soil dries out, and less in cool weather.
Soil
Well-drained, moderately rich soil or a gritty mix.
Temperature
10–24 °C; protect from frost and sustained heat above 30 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Mexico (Guerrero)

About

Arnicastrum guerrerense (sometimes called A. guerrense), of the family Asteraceae, is a perennial herb with yellow flowers. It is found in Mexico. It was discovered in 1983 in the mountains of Sierra Madre del Sur in the Mexican state of Guerrero and described in the scientific magazine Systematic Botany 3 years later. It was found at 3200m above sea level in a coniferous forest with predominant Pinus hartwegii and Abies. Although it is just known from Mexico, the Mexican red list of endangered plants describes it as non-endemic.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arnicastrum guerrerense 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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