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Lygodesmia texana
Also called Texas Skeleton Plant
Texas skeletonplant is a small native perennial wildflower in the daisy family, found in dry, rocky, well-drained limestone soils. It is grown mainly for its showy pale purple flowers and wild, leafless stems.
Lygodesmia texana, the Texas skeleton plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the US states of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma, and to northeastern Mexico. A perennial reaching at most 2 ft (60 cm), it prefers to grow on well-drained limestone soil and blooms from April to August.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lygodesmia texana 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.
