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Berlandiera texana |
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| Common name |
green eyes |
| Family |
asteraceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial (Z6-8)  |
| Flowers |
yellow |
| Size |
18-36" |
| Light |
sun |
| Cultural notes |
heat and drought tolerant |
Dark-centered yellow flowers, not unlike those of coreopsis, over course, somewhat hairy mid-green leaves. Although it is native to Texas, its range is really more the northern plains of Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Ozark, but it has held up well enough in the steamier climate of the Texas Gulf Coast, even self-seeding a bit in our back border. It's not a refined plant, looking a little gangly with its tall straight stems carrying flowers only near the top, but it fits in well enough in the jumble we call our back fence border.
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In early September of its first year with us, our plant suddenly declined and died back to the ground. I'm not sure if it was the deluge of rain brought by hurricane Harvey or the hot and humid weather that followed, but I thought I had lost yet another plant to Houston's climate oddities. So I was pleased to see, on a stroll through the garden in early November, that it had made a healthy comeback (photo at left). Since then our plants seem to do just fine through the warm season, dying back in winter.
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| The spring after its sudden decline, it returned early and strongly, coming into bloom as April got underway (photo above left). A single volunteer popped up nearby as well. By late April, the plant had charged upwards in somewhat unruly fashion (above right). It doesn't exactly put on a stunning floral display, but I'm glad to have it in the garden.
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| | Cool look just before flowers unfurl, with strappy petals wrapped across the central disk |
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| | Little burgundy flowers lining the central disk attract pollinators – like this potter wasp |
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: back fence border About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Michael Charles | Jan 16, 2022 | Texas green eyes - seeds need cold stratification. A few light frosts are sufficient. |
self-seeds modestly in our garden
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