Chocolate Daisy
Berlandiera lyrataChocolate Daisy is a perennial native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 1–2 ft tall and 2 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low to medium water, and handles caliche soil. Blooms yellow in mid spring. Deer rarely browse it. Good for hummingbirds.
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From our guide
Village of the HillsLow perennial with lobed gray-green leaves and yellow daisies with maroon centers that smell distinctly of chocolate in the morning.
Why it works here
The scent is real and strongest at dawn — plant it where people walk early. Blooms through heat on caliche.
Watch out
Fragrance fades by midday. Needs sharp drainage; it collapses in wet ground.
The facts
5 sources- Type
- Perennial
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3+ hrs)
- Water
- Low to medium
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Bloom
- Mid Spring · yellow
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Soil
- Takes caliche · recorded on calcareous, caliche, dry, limestone, loam, rocky, sand, well drained
- Deer
- High — deer rarely browse it. Aromatic foliage; rarely touched.
- Wildlife
- Supports browsing mammals and hummingbirds
Where it grows
Recorded in this EPA Level IV ecoregion in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Can you buy it?
In the Village of the Hills guide, but not on the grower stock lists we read yet. Ask a native-plant nursery.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.