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Glyptopleura

Glyptopleura
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Glyptopleura is a genus of low, North American daisy-family plants with flat rosettes of lobed leaves edged in hard white borders, grown mainly as wildflowers or rock-garden specimens. The key to growing them is sharp drainage and plenty of sun, as they dislike wet roots.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; avoid soggy roots.
Soil
Fast-draining, gritty or sandy mix.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates cool nights and light frost, protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Moderate

About

Glyptopleura is a genus of North American plants in the family Asteraceae. The common names for this plant include carveseed, holy dandelion or holly dandelion, keysia or keyesia, and crustleaf.

This plant grows low to the ground from a flat basal rosette of distinctive lobed green leaves outlined in eye-catching hard white borders. The flesh is rich in milky sap. The flowers are ligulate, bearing long ray florets with toothed ends, which may be white, cream, or pale yellow.

Other Glyptopleura plants

Carveseed · Holy dandelion

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Glyptopleura 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.

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