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Ash Meadows blazingstar

Mentzelia leucophylla

Ash Meadows blazingstar
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0

Ash Meadows blazingstar is a rare, pale, velvety biennial or short-lived perennial herb from one desert wetland area in southern Nevada. It is grown mainly by specialist native plant gardeners, and it needs full sun and very good drainage.

Family
Loasaceae (Loas family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, very well-drained mix.
Temperature
Tolerates hot summers and cool winters; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Nevada (NE. Nye Co.)
Climate
temperate

About

Mentzelia leucophylla, known by the common name Ash Meadows blazingstar, is a rare species of flowering plant in the Loasaceae. It is endemic to southwestern Nevada, in the Western United States.

Where it grows

The locally endemic plant is only known from southern Nye County in southwestern Nevada. It is one of the several rare plants only found at (endemic to) Ash Meadows in the Amargosa Desert, an area with a unique desert wetland ecosystem. It is threatened by habitat degradation.

Other Mentzelia plants

Yellowcomet · Whitestem blazingstar · Tropical blazingstar · Candelaria blazingstar · Gold blazingstar · Sunset Crater blazingstar · United blazingstar · Sierra blazingstar · Tenpetal blazingstar · Royal Gorge blazingstar · Bushy blazingstar · Pinyon blazingstar

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mentzelia leucophylla 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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