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Swamp Everlasting

Xerochrysum palustre

Swamp Everlasting
Photo: DavidFrancis34 from Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0

Swamp everlasting is a native Australian daisy-family herb that grows in damp, wet ground and bears papery everlasting flowers. Keep its roots moist and give it open sun to grow it well.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist and never let it dry out completely.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich soil or a wet, free-draining garden mix.
Temperature
10–25 °C; tolerates cool temperate winters but is damaged by hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Victoria, Tasmania
Climate
temperate

About

Xerochrysum palustre is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to Australia.

Other Xerochrysum plants

Xerochrysum bracteatum · Xerochrysum alpinum · Xerochrysum bicolor · Xerochrysum boreale · Xerochrysum collierianum · Xerochrysum interiore · Xerochrysum macsweeneyorum · Xerochrysum milliganii · Xerochrysum murapan · Island Everlasting · Alpine Everlasting · Sticky Everlasting

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Xerochrysum palustre 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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