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Heal and draw

Chaptalia nutans

Also called Silver Puff

Heal and draw
Photo: Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Trop. & Subtrop. America
Climate
subtropical

About

Chaptalia nutans is a species of plant in the Asteraceae family native to tropical and subtropical America. It is the most common species of its genus.

Where it grows

It occurs in warm and humid habitats in shade, and may also be found in habitats experiencing seasonal droughts.

Other Chaptalia plants

White sunbonnets · Silverpuff · Woolly sunbonnets · Sunbonnetts

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chaptalia nutans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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