Bluestem Pricklypoppy
Argemone albifloraBluestem Pricklypoppy is an annual wildflower native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 3–6 ft tall and 1 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms white in Mar–Jul. Deer rarely browse it. Good for bees, beetles and nectar insects.
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The facts
4 sources- Type
- Annual wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–7 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 3–6 ft
- Spread
- 1 ft
- Bloom
- Mar–Jul · white
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay · recorded on caliche, clay, dry, gravelly, limestone, loam, sand
- Deer
- High — deer rarely browse it
- Wildlife
- Supports bees, beetles and nectar insects
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
874 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.