Common Dog Weed, Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf, Five-needled Thymophylla, Parralena, Stiff-leafed Dogweed,

I am located in downtown Las Vegas, where it gets very hot in the summer months. I purchased a one gallon plant and installed it in my ga...Read Morerden that faces directly south, which also receives a lot of reflected heat and UV’s from the sidewalk and the street. I give this plant supplemental water, and it has grown in size, and blooms almost year round. It attracts wildlife and produces copious amounts of seed to spread in other areas of my property. I love it.

It is native on my Central Texas land. I love this little plant. It naturalizes in a cactus garden very nicely. It is nice growing in a ...Read Moredecomposed granite walk way or as a edging plant. It grows in solid caliche and improved catus soil. Its low stature makes it perfect to use with cactus and low growing prickly pear. It seems to always makes me smile. And I love all its names, from from the lyrical melodic Parralena and Dysodia to "Common Dog Weed"

A low, tufted, dark green, prickly plant with deep yellow flowers on leafless stalks.

Found in open deserts and arid, rock...Read Morey plains in southern UT to southeastern CA, AZ, NM, TX ans Mexico. Commonly grows near the Creosote Bush and Snakeweed.