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Mad River fleabane

Erigeron maniopotamicus

Also called Mad River Fleabane Daisy

Mad River fleabane
Photo: John McRae, Six Rivers National Forest, Public domain

Mad River fleabane is a rare daisy-family wildflower found only in northwestern California, growing in open, rocky, barren ground near the Mad River. It is a wild species with no established garden cultivation, so the key to any care is respecting its need for sun and sharp drainage.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly; let soil dry out fully between waterings.
Soil
Rocky, gritty, very well-drained mineral soil.
Temperature
Tolerates cool to mild temperatures typical of its native hills; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
California

About

Erigeron maniopotamicus is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Mad River fleabane. It is endemic to northwestern California, where it is known from only nineteen locations in Humboldt and Trinity Counties.

Erigeron maniopotamicus grows in open areas in forest, woodland, and meadow habitat along the path of the Mad River, generally in barren areas without much plant cover. The soils are rocky and tan in color and occur near areas of serpentine soils, but the plant does not occur on the serpentine soil.

Other Erigeron plants

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 maniopotamicus 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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