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🌸flower (5)
🍎fruit (3)
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Helichrysum glumaceum
Tier 2 Difficulty: medium Water: low Light: full_sun
Temperature
20–37 °C
Soil pH
6–8
Hardiness
Zone 9–11
Click count
13
Observations
153
Care Guide
💧 Water
☀️ Light Full sun
Helichrysum glumaceum is a perennial, herbaceous plant that favors sunny locations and originates from open habitats, frequently occurring in meadows and grasslands. It prefers full sun but can also tolerate partial sunlight.
Ideal: Full sun
🌡️ Temperature 20–37.8°C
Ideal temperature: 20–37.8°C
💨 Humidity
Humidity:
🪴 Soil 6-8
Soil pH: 6-8
🌱 Fertilizer
The best time to fertilize Helichrysum glumaceum is in early spring, as it emerges from dormancy and begins active growth. Fertilizing supplies essential nutrients needed for healthy growth. Although Helichrysum glumaceum has fairly low fertilizer requirements, applying fertilizer once a year can improve its survival and encourage better, longer-lasting flowers.
🪴 Pot & Repot
✂️ Pruning
🌿 Propagating
🐛 Diseases & pets
☠️ Toxicity
Characteristics
- Plant Type
- Herb
- Life Cycle
- Perennial
- Genus
- Helichrysum
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Hardiness Zone
- 9-11
- Mature Height
- 30 cm to 61 cm
- Mature Spread
- 20 cm to 40 cm
- Leaf Color
- Gray, Silver
- Leaf Type
- Evergreen
- Flower Color
- Yellow
- Flower Size
- 1.02 cm to 2.03 cm
- Bloom Time
- Mid spring, Late spring, Early summer
- Planting Time
- Spring, Summer, Autumn
- Harvest Time
- Summer
- Native Area
- Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Somalia, Egypt, Angola, Sudan, Mauritania, Eritrea, Yemen, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Chad, Mozambique, Senegal, Oman, Ethiopia