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White fiestaflower

Pholistoma membranaceum

Also called White Fiesta Flower

White fiestaflower
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 4.0

White fiestaflower is a low-growing annual wildflower of western North America, found from central California to Baja California in dry, sandy or rocky places. It is grown mainly as a native wildflower and needs sun, sharp drainage and little water.

Family
Hydrophyllaceae (Hydrophyll family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly while young and let the soil dry out between waterings; it needs little or no water once established.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, well-drained soil; poor soil is fine.
Temperature
10–27 °C; tolerates mild frost, protect below about -5 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
Mexico (Baja California Norte)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Pholistoma membranaceum is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrophyllaceae. It is known by the common name white fiesta flower.

It is native to western North America from central California to Baja California. It can be found in many types of habitat from mountain ravines to beaches to desert scrub generally below 4,500 feet (1,400 m) elevation.

Other Pholistoma plants

Blue fiestaflower · Racemed fiestaflower · Pholistoma

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pholistoma membranaceum 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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