Mexican Fleabane
Erigeron karvinskianus DC.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 15 cm
- wide
- 75 cm
Asteraceae
Also called St Peter Port Daisy, Mexican daisy, Wall Daisy, Daisy fleabane, Santa Barbara daisy
Formerly Erigeron mucronatus, Erigeron trilobus
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to VenezuelaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 15 cmRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; Wikipedia 15–15 cm
- Spread
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, pinkRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS pink, purple, white, yellow; Wikipedia pink, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -15 °C (USDA zone 7b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Marimonia
- French
- Vergerette des murailles, Pâquerette des murailles, Érigéron de Karvinsky
- Portuguese
- Vitadínia-das-floristas
- German
- Karvinskis Berufkraut, Stachelspitziges Berufkraut
- Dutch
- Muurfijnstraal, muurfijnstraal
- Estonian
- mehhiko õnnehein
- Japanese
- ペラペラヨメナ, ペラペラヒメジョオン
- Russian
- Мелколепестник Карвинского
- Czech
- turan Karwinského
- Polish
- Przymiotno Karwińskiego
- Chinese (China)
- 加勒比飞蓬菊
- Swedish
- murbinka, mexikobinka, mexicobinka
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Erigeron karvinskianus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.