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Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides
Also called Mexican Flame Vine, Orange Glow Vine, Mexcican Flame Vine
A fast-growing, twining vine with glossy evergreen leaves and bright orange daisy-like flowers that bloom almost all year. It is best grown in full sun with a trellis or shrub to climb on, and it is often grown as an annual in cold areas.
Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides (syn. Senecio confusus), known commonly as Mexican flamevine, orange-flowered groundsel and orange glow vine, is a climber in the family Asteraceae, native to Central America and northern South America. It is a vigorous vine with thick evergreen, deep green leaves and bright orange daisy-like flowers, which are borne in clusters, and usually bloom all year round.
The Mexican flamevine is prized as an ornamental because of its showy flowers, which are pollinated by butterflies, hummingbirds and bees. It is widely grown in gardens in parts of the United States in hardiness zones 10 through 11 as a climber or groundcover, though it can be hardy down to -6.7 °C (20 °F) in zone 9a. It requires full sun, well-drained soil, and either a trellis or a shrub to climb on.
Its fast growth is ideal to cover unsightly fences (since it usually reaches maturity within the first year). Regular heading aids foliage growth and blooms at the bottom of a fence or trellis. If not pruned, foliage and flowers will generally pile up at the top. Spent flowerheads should be occasionally removed to boost blooming all across plant.
It is native from Mexico (specifically Veracruz) to Honduras in Central America, and can be found as far south as tropical South America in Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana and Suriname, and as far north as southwestern United States in Southern California.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides 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.
