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Perityle emoryi
Emory's rockdaisy is a small annual wildflower of the Daisy family found in deserts of the southwestern US, Mexico and western South America. It grows easily from seed in sunny, dry, disturbed ground and needs very little care.
Perityle emoryi is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Emory's rockdaisy. It is native to the Southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico, and western South America. It is a common wildflower of the deserts, and can also be found in the coastal regions of the Californias, Sonora, and Sinaloa.
It grows in many types of habitat, it tolerates disturbance, and it can become somewhat weedy. it is an introduced species in parts of Hawaii. Its distribution is apparently expanding.
Perityle emoryi is naturally distributed throughout southwestern North America and western South America, an amphitropical distribution.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Perityle emoryi 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.
