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Chaenactis alpigena
Also called Sharsmith Pincushion
Southern Sierra pincushion is a small, low-growing alpine daisy from the High Sierra Nevada and White Mountains of California, forming woolly mats or clumps in sandy, gravelly ground. It is best grown in a sunny rock garden with sharp drainage and little summer water.
Chaenactis alpigena is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name southern Sierra pincushion. It is native to the High Sierra Nevada and the White Mountains of California, extending in the latter just into Nevada.
The plant is cultivated in rock gardens as well. It grows in sandy and gravelly soil in various alpine and subalpine mountain habitat.
White pincushion · Pebble pincushion · Cusick's pincushion · Douglas' dustymaiden · Evermann's pincushion · Pincushion flower · Esteve's Pincushion · Yellow pincushion · Chaenactis lacera · Bighead dustymaiden · Nevada dustymaiden · John Day's pincushion
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chaenactis alpigena 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.
