Chrysactinia mexicana (Damianita)

Chrysactinia mexicana (Damianita)Damianita is a mounding, bushy, evergreen shrub that features golden yellow flowers. It is technically a subshrub. It has significant drought tolerance and requires sharp drainage. It thrives in dry, poor soils and normally survives on rainfall alone. It is extremely heat and drought tolerant and does not like wet feet, especially in the winter. Damianita features dark green, aromatic foliage, and when planted en masse it creates a carpet of yellow

Texas native Yes Water use Medium to high

especially on the ends of smaller branchlets

It prefers woodland margins

in shallow limestone soil

It is a bird magnet from winter through early spring

it naturally stays under three feet tall

Various insects visit the flowers

It is a good native substitute for liriope or mondo grass

it is found growing alongside native warm season grasses such as Big Bluestem

the plant will remain a shrub

Willowleaf Aster is an herbaceous perennial that typically grows to 2-5' tall

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