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Vernonia schweinfurthii is a small African herb in the daisy family, native to tropical Africa, with a woody rootstock and mauve to purple flowers. It is a wild species rarely grown as a garden or houseplant, so care advice here is general and approximate.
Vernonia schweinfurthii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Zambia. One subspecies is recognized: Vernonia schweinfurthii var. bukamaensis.
The herb grows from 6 to 30 centimeter with a tall woody rootstock. Its leaves are linear and elliptic to oblong elliptic, and sizes from 05 to 0.8 centimeters. Its corolla are mauve or purple and stretches from 5 to 11 mm.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vernonia schweinfurthii 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.
