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Delilia biflora

Delilia biflora
Photo: Gaiacoyote, CC0

Delilia biflora is a small, much-branched annual herb from the Neotropics, best known for its tiny, unusually reduced flower heads. It is a weedy, sun-loving plant of disturbed and seasonally dry ground rather than a garden ornamental.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly; it tolerates dry spells typical of its seasonally dry native habitat.
Soil
Well-drained, ordinary or poor soil.
Temperature
18-32 °C; frost-tender, damaged below about 5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Mexico to S. Trop. America
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Delilia biflora, in Spanish often known as pelusilla (little fluffy) and amorosa (loving), is a neotropical herbaceous annual remarkable for its much-reduced flowering heads. It belongs to the family Asteraceae.

Where it grows

Delilia biflora occurs from Mexico southward through Central America into South America as far as northern Argentina and Brazil. Also it's been introduced, in Cape Verde, Cuba and the Galápagos.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Delilia biflora 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.

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