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Blackfoot Daisy
Melampodium leucanthum
31.1145, -97.4677
Field Notes
Description:
A low, round, bushy plant with flower heads of 8-10 broad white rays surrounding a small yellow central disk. Plains blackfoot or blackfoot daisy is a low, bushy, mounded perennial, 6-12 in. tall and twice as wide. It is covered with narrow leaves and 1 in. wide, white, daisy-like flowers. The white rays are toothed at the tips and surround yellow disk flowers. These honey-scented flower heads are solitary and terminal on slender stalks.
Habitat:
Several of these plants were growing out on the spillway in very rocky soil.
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Melampodium
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PublishedJuly 25, 2014
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