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Baileya multiradiata

 
Baileya multiradiata
desert marigold; paper daisy
Baileya multiradiata

Common name desert marigold; paper daisy
Family asteraceae
Life cycle biennial or short-lived perennial
Flowers yellow (spring-fall)
Size 12-18"
Light sun-part shade
Cultural notes well-drained soil; drought-tolerant
From seed Flowers first year from seed sown indoors early.
detailed seed-starting info below

Forms a mound of silver-hairy foliage with divided leaves, which sends up mostly leafless flowering stems holding bright yellow daisy flowers. When given favorable conditions, a plant can persist as a neatly rounded, permanently flowering form throughout the heat of summer. We grew ours from seed labeled as Psilostrophe cooperi, which is a woody subshrub, and later found out that this is more likely what we have growing. They started blooming in May from a January sowing. Native to the US southwest and northern Mexico.

This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away...

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Seed-starting details for this plant

  1. Seed from NARGS '24/'25 exchange. Detached typical daisy seeds from the dried petals to which they were loosely attached, baggy 70F (13%G, 4-6d)


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