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Plant profile · Austin & Hill Country

Smallflower Desert-chicory

Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus
native · Central Texas

Smallflower Desert-chicory is a wildflower native to Central Texas. It wants full sun or part shade and low water. Blooms orange and yellow in Feb–Jun.

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The facts

3 sources
Type
Wildflower
Sun
Full sun to part shade (4–8 hrs of direct sun)
Water
Low
Bloom
Feb–Jun · orange, yellow
Foliage
Deciduous or dies back in winter

Where it grows

1,019 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.