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Chromolaena oteroi
Mona Island thoroughwort is a shrub in the daisy family that grows naturally only on Mona Island, a small island in the West Indies. It is a rare wild species with little cultivation history, so it is not a common garden plant.
Chromolaena oteroi, commonly known as the Mona Island thoroughwort, is a species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It has been found only on Mona Island, a small island between Puerto Rico and Hispaniola in the West Indies and politically a part of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The shrub, with its pale purple flowers, was named after botanist José I. Otero.
Bigelow's thoroughwort · Limestone thoroughwort · Cape Sable thoroughwort · Geraniumleaf thoroughwort · Chromolaena hirsuta · Chromolaena impetiolaris · Chromolaena integrifolia · Ivyleaf thoroughwort · Chromolaena lundellii · Chromolaena macrodon · Chromolaena misella · Jack in the bush
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chromolaena oteroi 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.
