Zexmenia

Location: Wildlife Plant Garden

Names:

  • Common Name: Zexmenia
  • Botanical Name: Wedelia texana
  • AKA: Orange Zexmenia, Rough Zexmenia, Devil's River, Orange Wedelia, Hairy Wedelia, Texas Creeping Oxeye

Description: This bouquet-like shrublet stands upright in full sun but will adapt to partial shade at the woods edge by reclining slightly to form a mounding groundcover with shiny, dark, sandpapery leaves and slightly fewer golden-orange, nickel-sized daisies than would occur in full sun.

Best Growing Conditions: Full Sun; Partial Shade or Full Shade; Low Water Demand; Heat Tolerant

Landscape Use: Rock Garden, Border - Edge, Container

Wildlife Value: Butterflies, Bees