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Panamint daisy

Enceliopsis covillei

Panamint daisy
Photo: David~O, CC BY 2.0

Panamint daisy is a rare perennial desert wildflower from a single mountain range in California, with silvery woolly leaves and large yellow daisy flowers. It is grown mainly by specialist native plant gardeners and needs excellent drainage and full sun.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry out completely between waterings; overwatering causes rot.
Soil
Sharp, fast-draining gritty or rocky soil with very good drainage.
Temperature
Tolerates hot desert summers and cold winters; protect from prolonged frost and wet cold.
How easy
Hard
Native range
California

About

Enceliopsis covillei, known by the common name Panamint daisy, is a rare North American desert species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.

Where it grows

The perennial plant is endemic to California, within Death Valley National Park in Inyo County. It is only known from the rocky slopes of the western Panamint Range sky island, west of Death Valley in the northern Mojave Desert.

Other Enceliopsis plants

Silverleaf sunray · Nakedstem sunray · Sunray

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Enceliopsis covillei 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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