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Ericameria arizonica
Grand Canyon Goldenweed is a small shrub, up to about 50 cm tall, with yellow flower heads, found only on cliffs on the south rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. It is rare and imperiled in the wild, so it is rarely grown and most gardeners should not expect to find it for sale.
Ericameria arizonica is a North American species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae known as Arizona goldenbush or Grand Canyon goldenweed. It has been found only on the cliffs on the south rim of the Grand Canyon in Coconino County, Arizona.
Ericameria arizonica is a shrub up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall. It has elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate leaves up to 35 mm (1.4 inches) long. Flower heads are in flat-topped arrays, each with both disc florets and ray florets. The species was described in 2005 by Roland P. Roberts, Lowell E. Urbatsch and John Anderson. Ericameria arizonica is ranked as G2 (Imperiled) by NatureServe.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ericameria arizonica 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.
