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Empodium veratrifolium, the West Coast star, is a small tuber-forming geophyte from the Western Cape of South Africa, found only in a narrow coastal strip of strandveld. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care is best approached as for a dormant, winter-growing bulb in a sandy, well-drained, sunny spot.
Empodium veratrifolium, commonly known as the West Coast star in English or breëblaar sterretjie and Weskus sterretjie in Afrikaans, is a perennial flowering plant and tuber-forming geophyte belonging to the genus Empodium. The species is endemic to the Western Cape. It has a range of less than 500 km2 and there are fifteen subpopulations; the plant occurs from Lamberts Bay to Saldanha Bay on the Saldanha strandveld. The plant has lost some of its habitat due to coastal development. Invasive plants are also becoming a threat.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Empodium veratrifolium 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.
