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Isocoma coronopifolia
Also called Common Jimmyweed, Common Goldenweed
Common goldenbush is a shrub of the daisy family native to the arid Texas and northern Mexico borderlands, growing up to about 1.2 m tall with clusters of yellow disc flowers. It is a hardy desert-adapted plant that needs full sun and very little water once established.
Isocoma coronopifolia, the common goldenbush, is a North American plant species in the family Asteraceae. It has been found on both sides of the Río Grande, in Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Chihuahua, and southern Texas.
Isocoma coronopifolia is a shrub up to 120 cm (4 feet) tall. The plant produces flower heads in clusters on the tips of branches, each head containing 12-15 disc flowers but no ray flowers.
Alkali goldenbush · Carquinez goldenbush · Aztec goldenbush · Drummond's goldenbush · Isocoma felgeri · Isocoma gypsophila · Isocoma hartwegii · Zion goldenbush · Menzies' goldenbush · Southern goldenbush · Rusby's goldenbush · Isocoma tehuacana
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Isocoma coronopifolia 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.
