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Oxeye

Heteranthemis

Heteranthemis is a genus with a single species, Heteranthemis viscidehirta (sticky oxeye), a sticky annual daisy from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa that is found elsewhere as an introduced weed. It grows as a bright-flowered annual that sets seed each year.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly and let the soil dry between waterings; it is drought tolerant once established.
Soil
Well-drained, poor to average soil; tolerates sandy or gravelly ground.
Temperature
15–28 °C; tolerates mild frost but is not hardy in hard freezes.
How easy
Easy

About

Heteranthemis is a monotypic genus of plants in the daisy family containing the single species Heteranthemis viscidehirta (orth. var. H. viscidihirta), which is known by the common name oxeye, or sticky oxeye. This plant is native to the Iberian Peninsula and adjacent areas in North Africa, but it can be found in other parts of the world as an introduced species. This is an annual herb growing erect stems 20 to 80 centimeters tall. Its abundant leaves are a few centimeters long, wavy to curly and divided into irregular toothed lobes. The stem and foliage are glandular and produce a sticky exudate. The plants produce bright yellow daisylike flower heads, with bases covered in large green phyllaries. The center of the head is filled with many yellow disc florets and the edge is fringed with toothed yellow ray florets about 2 centimeters long.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Heteranthemis 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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