Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Yellow ), 0 by htop

htop wrote:
Damianita Daisy (Chrysactinia mexicana) - bright yellow blooming type, Asteraceae Family, Texas native, perennial, blooms mainly in spring and on and off through fall, evergreen

Damianita daisy is also known by theses names:Calanca, False Damiana, Garanona, Hierba de San Nicolas, Mariola, Romerillo, San Nicolas and Yeyepaxtle. It is a small evergreen shrub (actually a subsrub) that has dark green, highly aromatic needle-like leaves and is extremely heat and drought tolerant. It typically can be found growing natively on rocky limestone soils in the Trans-Pecos and Edwards Plateau. However, it is not picky about the types of soil in which it thrives being found found growing in igneous, sandy, sandy loam, medium loam, clay loam, clay and caliche soils. Poor soils (not amended with organic matter) with excellent drainage are recommended if being grown as a landscape plant. It is well suited for rock gardens, wildscapes, xeriscapes, flowerbed borders and/or as a ground cover for hillsides or hot exposed areas. It is cold hardy to about 10 degrees F.

I have had 2 of these planted in a hot, dry part of my landscape since the spring. They have been somewhat slow growers and I have provided supplemental water as they were becoming established due to the severe drought conditions in my naighborhood. Because the soil in which I planted them is very well draining, they have done very well and are now putting on a show of bright yelllow blooms (some types have golden yellow blooms as shown above in this thread). The stems have flopped some and they have a compact, mounded growth habit.

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/68511/index.html

A view of the small bloom ...


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