A rounded desert native covered in golden-yellow daisies from spring into fall. Bright green leaves on pale stems keep it looking fresh, and it takes full sun and reflected heat on low water.
Living with it in the Phoenix Valley
Watering
Follow the shrub schedule in our Landscape Care guide, then keep it on the lean side; it is a desert native. It is very drought tolerant once established, but grows fuller and blooms longer with occasional extra water.
Pruning
Remove spent flowers and trim lightly after a bloom cycle to keep it dense. Leave any frost-damaged growth until the danger of frost has passed, then cut it back.
Cold
A hard freeze can knock it back, sometimes to the ground. It usually regrows from the base in spring.
Feeding
Not needed. Rich soil and fertilizer only make it soft and leggy.
How our designers use it
Long-season yellow
Few desert shrubs bloom this long. Our designers use it to carry color through the warm months in native and low-water gardens.
Hot walls and reflected heat
It holds up beside walls, drives and boulders where softer plants struggle.
Contrast
Its yellow flowers and green leaves look sharp against blue agaves, gray foliage and purple-flowering shrubs.
Good to know
Around the pool
No thorns or fruit, and spent flowers are light. Bees and butterflies visit the blooms, so leave a little space from seating.
