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