Cowpen daisy
Verbesina encelioides (Cav.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex A.Gray
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- —
Asteraceae
Also called Golden Crownbeard, Wild sunflower, South African Daisy, Township Daisy, Butter Daisy
Formerly Encelia albescens, Pallasia serratifolia, Verbesina australis, Verbesina exauriculata, and 5 more
When it flowers
Flowers March to January 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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- U.S.A. to Mexico, Caribbean, Ecuador to S. South AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 1.5 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- hierba ceniza
- Spanish
- Hierba de la bruja, anil del muerto, Girasolillo
- Hebrew
- כנפון זהוב
- Finnish
- amerikanhelosäde, itäamerikanhelosäde
- Russian
- Вербесина энцелиевидная
- Swedish
- verbesina
- Chinese (China)
- 金冠须马鞭菊
- Chinese
- 金冠鬚馬鞭菊
- Afrikaans
- wildesonneblom, wilde sonneblom
- French
- verbésine fausse-encélie, herbe Marie-Thérèse
- Ukrainian
- Вербезина американська
- Slovak
- verbesína encéliovitá
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Verbesina encelioides (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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