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Helichrysum sanguineum
Also called Scarlet Everlasting
Red everlasting is a small, low-growing Levantine wildflower in the daisy family, valued for its papery, deep red flower heads that bloom in spring. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so the care notes below are general guidance for a Mediterranean-type everlasting.
Helichrysum sanguineum, known in English as red everlasting and red cudweed, is a flowering plant of the genus Helichrysum in the family Asteraceae. It grows in mountain forests in the Levant where it blooms in April–June. The flower, known in Hebrew as "Blood of the Maccabees"
The plant grows in the Levant, including: western Syria, the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon and Mount Lebanon up to an altitude of 1000 m, on the Golan Heights, in most of the northern and central part of Israel and the West Bank (Upper and Lower Galilee, around the Sea of Galilee, on Mount Carmel and the Coastal Plain south of it, Mount Gilboa, the northern part of the Jordan Valley, Samaria, the Judaean Mountains and the Shefela), and the mountainous Gilead region in Jordan (the areas of Jerash and Dibeen, Ajloun, and Al-Salt).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Helichrysum sanguineum 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.
