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Flaveria palmeri

Flaveria palmeri is a rare shrub from northeastern Mexico, found only in Coahuila and Nuevo León, growing on dry gypsum soils in the Chihuahuan Desert. It is not a common garden plant, so care guidance is mostly general desert-plant practice.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out fully between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty mix; tolerates gypsum or alkaline soils.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NE. Mexico

About

Flaveria palmeri is a rare Mexican plant species of Flaveria within the family Asteraceae. It has been found only in the States of Coahuila and Nuevo León in northeastern Mexico.

Flaveria palmeri grows in dry gypsum soils in the Chihuahuan Desert. It is a shrub up to 75 cm (30 in) tall. Leaves are long and narrow, up to 8 cm (3 in) long. One plant can produce numerous small yellow flower heads in loose, branching arrays. Each head contains 3-8 disc flowers plus a few ray flowers.

Other Flaveria plants

Flaveria angustifolia · Flaveria anomala · Clustered Yellowtops · Coastal plain yellowtops · Brown's yellowtops · Alkali yellowtops · Clasping yellowtops · Flaveria cronquistii · Florida yellowtops · Flaveria kochiana · Narrowleaf yellowtops · Grand Canyon Flaveria

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Flaveria palmeri 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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