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Stenandrium hirsutum

Stenandrium hirsutum is a hairy perennial herb from the Acanthus family, native to the Cerrado savanna of central Brazil. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care guidance is general and based on related seasonal-tropical plants.

Family
Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water freely in the growing season and let the soil dry out between waterings during the dry season.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. Brazil
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Stenandrium hirsutum is a plant native to the Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. The description of the plant was published in Flora Brasiliensis in 1847.

Other Stenandrium plants

Stenandrium acuminatum · Sweet shaggytuft · Stenandrium harlingii · Stenandrium pohlii · Shaggytuft

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stenandrium hirsutum 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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