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Lasthenia kunthii
Ranca (Lasthenia kunthii) is a small daisy-family herb native to central Chile and nearby Patagonian Argentina, found in seasonally flooded lagoons and salty grasslands. It needs wet or periodically inundated soil and full sun to grow well.
Lasthenia kunthii (vernacular name ranca)) is a herb endemic to central Chile. It was first gathered in Rancagua.
This herb grows in inundated environments, such as lagoons and grasslands with large amounts of salt. Its range is mostly between Coquimbo and Valdivia, but it has also been observed in Ultima Esperanza (Magallanes Region) and in the provinces of Chubut and Río Negro, Argentina.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lasthenia kunthii 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.
