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Asteraceae
False tobacco
Elephantopus mollis
Also known as Elephantopus carolinianus, Elephantopus serratus, Aztec tobacco, Elephantopus martii
Tropical Plants · Edibles & Herbs · Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Tropical Perennial · Medicinal Herb · Wildflower · Pollinator Plant · Fast Growing · Subtropical · Ground Cover · Asteraceae · Ethnobotany · Shade Tolerant
False tobacco is a robust tropical perennial herb that thrives in warm, humid conditions with partial shade and moist, fertile soil. It is an easy-care plant that grows quickly and produces small lavender composite flowers attractive to pollinators. Best suited for tropical and subtropical garden beds or as a naturalistic ground cover; it is not frost-hardy and will need protection or overwintering indoors in cooler climates.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Water until soil is evenly moist, allowing the top inch or two to dry between waterings · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5–7.2
- Temperature
- -25°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 4b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 4 ft
- Spread
- 3 ft
- Spacing
- 24 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- Yes
- Foliage
- Coarse
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Moths
Sources: trefle
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