Acourtia wrightii (A.Gray) Reveal & R.M.King
Brownfoot; Wright's desertpeony; Pink perezzia
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Summary
Acourtia wrightii, common name brownfoot, is a North American species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the southwestern United States (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southern Utah, southern Nevada) and northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Zacatecas).
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Acourtia wrightii", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads a rainy season with no name: 70% of the median year's rain (266 mm of 347 mm) falls in December to February and July to October, whose mean temperature, 17.3 °C, is within half a degree of the year's, 17.8 °C, so it is neither the cooler nor the warmer part of the year. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: January to April and June to August.
Rain
347 mm in the median year at the habitat, 266 mm of it December to February and July to October. Wettest month August at 57 mm, driest month June at 10 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 245 mm to 563 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 374 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 347 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 21 to 53 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 18, the highest 90th-percentile month 54).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -7.7 °C, the absolute minimum -15.3 °C, 2,736 frost nights in 44 years, 62.2 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 35.5 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 2.1 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range -1.9 °C to 6.1 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 33.4 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -7.7 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 37 to 49% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +441 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.
Climate across the habitat
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 15 °C in Jan and Dec to 33 °C in Jun and Jul; mean nightly low from 2 °C in Jan and Dec to 21 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Nov to Jan, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 2 months in a row that tie for it. 347 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Aug. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 637 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was -15.3 °C and the 99th-percentile day 35.5 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 15 / 10–19 | 17 / 12–21 | 21 / 16–25 | 25 / 20–28 | 29 / 25–33 | 33 / 28–37 | 33 / 27–38 | 32 / 27–37 | 30 / 25–35 | 25 / 21–29 | 20 / 15–23 | 15 / 10–19 |
| Night °C | 2 / -2–6 | 4 / -1–8 | 6 / 2–10 | 10 / 5–14 | 15 / 11–18 | 19 / 15–22 | 21 / 16–26 | 20 / 15–25 | 17 / 13–22 | 12 / 8–16 | 6 / 3–10 | 2 / -2–7 |
| Rain mm | 28 / 14–49 | 28 / 11–48 | 25 / 7–49 | 15 / 8–30 | 11 / 5–44 | 10 / 2–63 | 56 / 26–92 | 57 / 37–92 | 41 / 21–75 | 28 / 19–45 | 20 / 11–34 | 28 / 12–46 |
| DLI | 23 / 20–27 | 29 / 26–33 | 38 / 36–42 | 47 / 45–48 | 52 / 47–53 | 53 / 45–54 | 47 / 43–50 | 43 / 41–45 | 39 / 36–40 | 32 / 30–34 | 25 / 22–29 | 21 / 18–25 |
| RH % | 49 / 46–54 | 48 / 44–53 | 44 / 41–50 | 40 / 37–49 | 39 / 34–53 | 37 / 33–55 | 46 / 40–56 | 49 / 43–56 | 47 / 41–57 | 46 / 41–56 | 47 / 43–53 | 49 / 46–53 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Jo Roberts, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (4).
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Also known as Perezia arizonica; Perezia schaffneri; Perezia wrightii; Perezia wrightii var. arizonica; Perezia wrightii var. wrightii. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
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