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Stephanomeria runcinata
Also called Desert Wire Lettuce, Flowering Straw, Runcinate Leaved Rush Pink, Rush Pink, Saw Tooth Wirelettuce, Sawtooth Wire Lettuce, Desert Skeletonplant
Desert wirelettuce is a wild North American daisy-family herb found in dry, open habitats, rarely grown in gardens. Give it full sun, sharp drainage and very little water.
Stephanomeria runcinata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name desert wirelettuce.
Chicoryleaf wirelettuce · San Diego wirelettuce · Santa Barbara wirelettuce · Small wirelettuce · Teton wirelettuce · Lettuce wirelettuce · Malheur wirelettuce · Stephanomeria occultata · Tufted wirelettuce · Parry's wirelettuce · Brownplume wirelettuce · Slender Wire Lettuce
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stephanomeria runcinata 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.
