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Lewisia maguirei
Maguire's lewisia is a rare, low-growing perennial from a taproot, endemic to a small area of eastern Nye County, Nevada. It is a species of rocky, well-drained alpine-type slopes and is grown only by specialist collectors.
Lewisia maguirei is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Montiaceae known by the common name Maguire's lewisia, or Maguire's bitterroot. It is endemic to Nevada in the United States, where it is known only from eastern Nye County.
It grows on rocky clay and limestone slopes in open pinyon-juniper woodland at elevations around 2,240 to 2,525 meters (7,349 to 8,284 ft). Other plants in the habitat include desert green gentian (Frasera albomarginata), Torrey's milkvetch (Astragalus calycosus), stemless four-nerved daisy (Tetraneuris acaulis), Nevada onion (Allium nevadense), and rock goldenrod (Petradoria pumila).
Shortsepal lewisia · Cantelow's lewisia · Columbian lewisia · Congdon's lewisia · Siskiyou lewisia · Yosemite lewisia · Kellogg's lewisia · Quill-leaf lewisia · Truckee lewisia · Nevada lewisia · Oppositeleaf lewisia · Alpine lewisia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lewisia maguirei 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.
