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Location: Rock Garden/Xeriscape Design
Names:
- Common Name: Blackfoot Daisy
- Botanical Name: Melampodium leucanthum
- AKA: Black Foot Daisy, Plains Blackfoot Daisy
Description: A low, round, bushy plant with flower heads of 8-13 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.
Best Growing Conditions: Full Sun, Partial Shade; Very Low Shade
Landscape Use: Container, Rock Garden, Fragrance, Salt Tolerant, Deer Resistant