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Mentzelia lindleyi
Also called Golden Bartonia, Blazingstar
Lindley's blazingstar is a native annual wildflower of California and Arizona with bright yellow five-petaled flowers on plants 1 to 3 feet tall. It is grown for drought-tolerant beds, rock gardens and pollinator gardens, and it does best in sandy, well-drained soil.
Mentzelia lindleyi, commonly known as golden bartonia, Lindley's blazingstar, evening star, or blazing star, is an annual wildflower of western North America.
As an annual wildflower, Mentzelia lindleyi is cultivated as an ornamental plant in traditional flower beds, drought tolerant and habitat gardens, and desert rock gardens. It is a pollinator plant in wildlife gardens. The plant prefers sandy soil in gardens.
The plant is found in the California Coast Ranges, San Francisco Bay Area, and San Joaquin Valley of California; and in Arizona.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mentzelia lindleyi 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.
