Field Guide / Native Plant
Native Plant
Zexmenia
Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida
Zexmenia is the plant nobody can pronounce and everybody should grow — small gold-orange daisies on a tough, low mound that blooms spring to frost and regards drought as someone else's problem. The butterflies adore it. An underused native workhorse, held back mostly by its own unfortunate name. 🧡
Water
Very low
Sun
Full
Blooms
Spring–fall
Wildlife
Butterflies
Tough gold-orange daisies on a low, drought-proof mound — it keeps one of the longest bloom seasons of any native, working overtime while flashier plants take the summer off.
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