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Verbesina encelioides
Also called American Dogweed, South African Daisy, Butter Daisy, Crown Beard, Golden Crown Beard, Wild Sunflower, Township Daisy
Golden crownbeard is a fast-growing summer annual with small sunflower-like yellow daisies, native to the southwestern US and northern Mexico. It thrives in full sun and disturbed, well-drained ground, and it self-seeds freely.
Verbesina encelioides is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Common names include golden crownbeard, cowpen daisy, goldweed, wild sunflower, butter daisy, crown-beard, American dogweed, and the Spanish Añil del Muerto ("indigo of the dead").
It is a summer annual with blooms resembling small sunflowers and distinctive flattened seeds. It is native to North America, growing in disturbed habitats.
The species is native to the Southwest United States and Northern Mexico. It is naturalized in parts of Eastern North America, the Middle East, Spain, Argentina, Australia and the Pacific islands.
Native Americans and early settlers used the plants to treat skin disorders.
Wingstem · Verbesina auriculigera · Verbesina barclayae · Verbesina brachypoda · Verbesina centroboyacana · Chapman's crownbeard · Bigleaf crownbeard · Verbesina ecuatoriana · Verbesina harlingii · Gravelweed · Verbesina kingii · Verbesina latisquama
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Verbesina encelioides 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.
