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Browallia eludens
Also called Arizona Bush Violet, Yellow Bush Violet
Browallia eludens, the Arizona or yellow bush-violet, is a small, delicate annual herb in the nightshade family known from only a few sites in Arizona, Sonora and Chihuahua. It is rarely grown; it needs moist, partly shaded conditions similar to its forest-edge habitat.
Browallia eludens is a small herb in the genus Browallia in the family Solanaceae. It is known only from a few locales in Arizona, Sonora, and Chihuahua. Indeed, at the time of its initial publication in 1993, this represented the first time that any member of the genus had been reported from the United States. The epithet "eludens" refers to the fact that the plant had eluded botanists for many years.
The species is considered critically imperiled in the United States because it is known from a single location, in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, a few km north of the Mexican border.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Browallia eludens 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.
