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Erigeron kuschei
Chiricahua fleabane is a rare, small rhizomatous perennial daisy found only in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. It is a wild species of shady cliffs and is not commonly grown in gardens, so cultivation advice is limited.
Erigeron kuschei is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Chiricahua fleabane. It is endemic to Arizona in the southwestern United States, where it is known from two locations in the Chiricahua Mountains.
Erigeron kuschei is a rhizomatous perennial herb produces hairy stems a few centimeters tall. The leaves are spatula-shaped to lance-shaped and up to 6 cm (2.4 in) long near the base of the plant. The flower heads are lined with hairy, glandular phyllaries and contain many white ray florets each up to 1.1 cm (0.43 in) long surrounding numerous yellow disc florets.
Dwarf horseweed · Lance-leafed Darwin's Shrub · Thin-leafed Darwin's Shrub · Fleabane · Abajo fleabane · Bluewater fleabane · Blue Fleabane · Erigeron adscendens · Hall's fleabane · Stalked fleabane · Alice Eastwood's fleabane · Erigeron allochrous
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erigeron kuschei 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.
