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Chaenactis suffrutescens
Shasta chaenactis is a spreading, woolly-leaved subshrub in the daisy family, native to far northern California and southern Oregon's mountains. It is a wild plant of conifer forests and serpentine soils rather than a common garden or houseplant.
Chaenactis suffrutescens is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Shasta chaenactis.
It is native to California, where it is known only from Shasta and Trinity Counties in the far northern part of the state, and also to Oregon, where it has been found in Josephine County. It grows in coniferous forests and other habitat in the Klamath Mountains and the southernmost Cascade Range mountains, sometimes on serpentine soils.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chaenactis suffrutescens 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.
