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Heterotheca mexicana

Heterotheca mexicana
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Heterotheca mexicana is a rare Mexican daisy-family shrub or subshrub known only from western Durango. Little is documented about its cultivation, so it is not a common garden plant.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings, as is typical for drought-adapted Mexican daisies.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil
Temperature
Subtropical; tolerates warm conditions, protect from frost
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mexico (Durango)
Climate
subtropical

About

Heterotheca mexicana is a rare Mexican species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It has been found only in western Durango in northeastern Mexico.

Other Heterotheca plants

Spokane false goldenaster · Heterotheca brandegeei · Lemonyellow false goldenaster · Hoary false goldenaster · Rockyscree false goldenaster · Telegraphweed · Heterotheca gypsophila · Hartman’s False Goldenaster · Jones' false goldenaster · Sonora false goldenaster · Sequoia false goldenaster · Heterotheca mucronata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Heterotheca mexicana 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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