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Erigeron karvinskianus
Also called Mexican fleabane, Mexican Daisy, Santa Barbera Daisy, Bony Tip Fleabane, Daisy Fleabane, Karwinsky's Fleabane, Santa Barbara Daisy
Mexican fleabane is a low, spreading perennial daisy that forms a carpet of small white-to-pink flowers with yellow centres. It thrives in sun and tolerates poor, dry, rocky spots such as wall crevices and paving cracks.
Erigeron karvinskianus, the Mexican fleabane, is a species of daisy-like flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Mexico and parts of Central America.
Other common names include Latin American fleabane, Santa Barbara daisy, Spanish daisy, Karwinsky's fleabane, or bony-tip fleabane.
Erigeron karvinskianus is also cultivated for its daisy-like blooms, and is often confused with the closely related true daisy Bellis perennis. It is frequently grown in crevices in walls or paving, where it rapidly spreads to provide a carpet of flowers. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It was used to colonise the concrete terraces of the football stadium (Estadio Azteca) built in Mexico City for the 1970 World Cup.
Erigeron karvinskianus is native to much of Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela. and is naturalized in many other places, including parts of Africa and Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, Chile, the west coast of the United States, and New Zealand, where it is a weed species that impacts native forest restoration.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erigeron karvinskianus 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.
