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Milleria quinqueflora

Milleria quinqueflora
Photo: Gaiacoyote, CC0

Milleria quinqueflora is a one-year (annual), weedy, herbaceous plant from the daisy family, native to Mexico, Central America and parts of South America. It is the only species in its genus and has no common English name, so it is grown mainly by botanists and in wild or garden settings rather than as an ornamental.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water when the top of the soil dries out; it is a weedy annual that tolerates ordinary garden moisture.
Soil
Ordinary well-drained garden soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; sensitive to frost
How easy
Easy
Native range
Mexico to Trop. America
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Milleria quinqueflora, with no commonly accepted English name, is a species of neotropical plant belonging to the family Asteraceae. It is the only species belonging to the genus Milleria.

Where it grows

Milleria quinqueflora occurs throughout most of Mexico, except for the northeastern part, plus Cuba and Central America south into South America as far as Ecuador and Peru.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Milleria quinqueflora 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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