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Cheirolophus crassifolius
Also called Maltese centaury
Maltese rock-centaury is a Maltese endemic daisy-family shrub that grows wild on coastal cliffs and is also planted in roundabouts. It needs full sun and well-drained, rocky soil, and tolerates dry conditions well.
Cheirolophus crassifolius, the Maltese centaury, Maltese rock-centaury or Widnet il-Baħar, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to Malta. Its natural habitats are cliffs and coastal valleys. It is threatened by habitat loss.
It is scarce but widespread in the wild on the western cliffs of Malta, rare on the southern cliffs of Gozo, but frequent as a cultivated species in roundabouts. It is quite common in the limits of Wied Babu in the south east of Malta.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cheirolophus crassifolius 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.
