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Rod Wirelettuce
Stephanomeria virgata
  
1 Nurseries Carry This Plant

About Rod Wirelettuce (Stephanomeria virgata) 1 Nurseries Carry This Plant Stephanomeria virgata, commonly called rod wirelettuce, twiggy wreath plant, and virgate wirelettuce, is a herbaceous annual plant of the sunflower family, Asteraceae. It can be found growing in Western North America, specifically California, but also in Oregon and Nevada and northern Mexico. This plant can be found in dry, open habitat types at elevations below 2100 meters. S. virgata is sometimes used as an ornamental plant. Stephanomeria virgata is an annual plant and grows 5 to 30 centimeters tall. The stem may be hairless or woolly. It is long and has dense branches. Leaves on the lower plant are rosetted around the base. They are oblong and lobed. On the upper plant the leaves are small, linear in shape, and smooth edged without lobes. Flower heads occur at intervals on the branches and contain 5 to 9 ray florets. The fruit is an achene with a pappus of white bristles. Early Classification. Stephanomeria virgata formerly included plants that now belong to the species Stephanomeria diegensis.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual herb

Size
Size
1.9 - 11.8 in tall

Form
Form
Upright

Wildlife Supported
 
bees

 
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 4 likely * ) SHOW ALL
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Kodiosoma fulvum Image
Kodiosoma fulvumKodiosoma fulvum
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Cucullia eulepis Image
Cucullia eulepisCucullia eulepis
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Schinia scarletina Image
Schinia scarletinaSchinia scarletina
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Cucullia mcdunnoughi Image
Cucullia mcdunnoughiCucullia mcdunnoughi

Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Full Sun

Nurseries
Nurseries
Carried by 1

Ease of Care
Ease of Care
Very Easy

Maintenance
Maintenance
cut back once done blooming, allow seeds to develop and drop if re-seeding is desired

Propagation
Propagation?
readily by seed

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Dry flats, deserts

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 6.4" - 67.9", Summer Precipitation: 0.15" - 2.94", Coldest Month: 25.4" - 56.9", Hottest Month: 55.2" - 83.7", Humidity: 0.01" - 35.21", Elevation: 1" - 8798"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Tall Stephanomeria, Virgate Stephanomeria


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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