A LITTLE MORE LIFE
ʻIlima
Sida fallax
Yellow flowers offer food for native yellow-faced bees.
MAKE IT FEEL AT HOME
A spot to thrive.
Choose a coastal or upland form suited to your garden; heavy irrigation can cause rot.
- Sunlight
- Full sun
- Soil moisture
- Dry soil
- Mature size
- Under 2 to over 10 ft tall, by form · 4–8 ft wide
- Season of interest
- Year-round flowers
- Local climate
- Choose by island, elevation, and rainfall.
- Garden role
- A sunny flowering border
ONE GOOD SWAP
Instead of treasure flower.
Gazania rigens
Try ʻilima for a sunny flowering border.
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Photo credits & licenses
ʻIlima: Forest and Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0 us
Treasure flower: Waldemar Jan · CC-BY-SA 2.0
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