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Lance-leafed Darwin's Shrub

Darwiniothamnus lancifolius

Lance-leafed Darwin's Shrub
Photo: Trebol-a, CC BY-SA 3.0

Darwiniothamnus lancifolius is a daisy-family shrub found only in the Galápagos Islands, where it grows in native dry habitats. It is rarely grown in cultivation, so care advice is based on its native dry, sunny conditions.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings, as it is adapted to arid island conditions.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard

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Darwiniothamnus lancifolius is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.

It is found only in the Galápagos Islands.

Other Erigeron plants

Dwarf horseweed · Thin-leafed Darwin's Shrub · Fleabane · Abajo fleabane · Bluewater fleabane · Blue Fleabane · Erigeron adscendens · Hall's fleabane · Stalked fleabane · Alice Eastwood's fleabane · Erigeron allochrous · Big Horn fleabane

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Darwiniothamnus lancifolius 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.

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