Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides
Mexican Flame Vine
Family: Asteraceae
This is a succulent-leafed vine with spectacular orange flowers that are incredibly nectar-rich and with compounds that makes butterflies go crazy! The flowers are borne in clusters, and usually bloom all year round.
Plant in full to part sun but maybe avoid reflective heat. Moderate to regular water. The top of the plant is frost tender but plants can re-emerge from frost in spring from their roots.
The flowers are pollinated by butterflies, hummingbirds and bees.
It is native from Mexico (specifically Veracruz) to Honduras in Central America, and can be found as far as the northern regions of South America in Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana and Suriname.
Photo by Yucalyptus, Wikipedia
Pseudognoxys chenopodioides on iNaturalist
Formerly known as Senecio confusus. Genus epithet 'Pseudogynoxys' means 'resembling' the Gynoxys genus, another tropical Amercian member of the Asteraceae (daisy) family. The species name, chenopodioides, means "resembling goosefoot" in Greek, from the words chen (goose) and pous (foot), which describes the plant's leaf shape. There are 15 species of Pseudogynoxys native to the American tropics.