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Tessaria absinthioides is a shrubby, salt-tolerant (halophytic) daisy-family plant that grows along river banks and can also survive in extremely dry deserts, where it relies largely on fog for moisture. It is adaptable, and its main requirement is some source of moisture, whether river water or fog.
Tessaria absinthioides is a halophytic species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
While it prefers to grow along river beds, it is extremely adaptable to many different environments, the most notable being the Atacama Desert. Here, in the Pampa del Tamarugal, the plant gains moisture almost exclusively through fog.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tessaria absinthioides 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.
