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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Nassauvieae
  8. Desert Peonies

genus

Desert Peonies

Acourtia

Traits
Includes
2 native 3 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Sacapellote native
  • Brownfoot native
  • Dwarf Desert Peony present
  • Featherleaf Desertpeony present
  • Thurber's Desertpeony present

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native desert peonies All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Sacapellote Acourtia microcephala caterpillars 1 flowers 3
  • Brownfoot Acourtia wrightii flowers 3

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