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Home  >  Buy Plants by Genus > Echeandia

Echeandia (Crag Lily)

Echeandia is a genus of approximately 80 species of drought-tolerant perennials native to the Americas, from Texas to Argentina, that are closely related to Asparagus, Agave, and Chlorophytum. The genus name commemorates a Spanish botanist, Pedro Gregorio Echeandia, who lived in the late 1700s and wrote the first Flora of Spain.

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In the US, Echeandia species are perennial wildflowers found only in the desert Southwest (Texas, Arizona, etc.). Echeandia plants are corm-producing herbaceous fall-flowering perennals with orange, yellow, or white flowers that attract butterflies. Luckily for us, several Echeandia species (including Echeandia texensis) has enough cold tolerance to be used as an ornamental in the Southeast US.

As with all desert plants Echeandia must be given soils with excellent drainage to prevent winter root rot. Try combining Echeandia other xeric plants such as salvia and agave. When you are ready to buy echeandia for your perennial garden, check out our online list of echeandia for sale below.


Since 1988, Plant Delights Nursery has been the choice of serious gardeners and plant collectors looking for the best and rarest perennial plants. We are pleased to have received the Perennial Plant Association Retail Award in 2011, the American Horticulture Society Commercial Award in 2002, and to have been selected as one of the Best Mail Order Plant Sources - Garden Design Magazine 2010. Welcome to our family of plant lovers!

       

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Echeandia texensis 'Loma del Potrero Cercado' (Texas Echeandia)
Echeandia texensis 'Loma del Potrero Cercado' (Texas Echeandia)
By all rights, this rare Southeast US native shouldn't be winter-hardy for us, but here is a great lesson why we trial plants. This stunning fall bloomer hails from the summit of Loma del Potrero Cercado, east of Brownsville, Texas (Zone 9A) at the whopping elevation of 26' . Despite this upbringing, it has taken all the winter cold we can throw at it without blinking. The deciduous 3' wide spider plant-like green rosette returns in spring, and in September and October is topped with 5' tall branched spikes of small star-like, mustard-yellow flowers...superb for color in the fall garden!
Pot Size: 3.5" (24 fl. oz/709.77 ml)
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Zone: 7b-10, at least,  Height: 60",  Culture: Sun,  Origin: USA
# 8957
$12.00


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