Melampodium leucanthum

Common name: Plains black-foot, Rock daisy, Blackfoot Daisy
Family: Asteraceae - sunflower family
Size: Up to 60 cm tall
Description: Low, bushy, mounds

Flower head:

• 7-13 white rays, toothed at the tips
• Yellow disk flowers

Inflorescence:

• Up to 3.8 cm across
• Heads are solitary and terminal on slender stalk
• Stalks numerous

Stems and leaves:

• Lanceolate, linear-oblong or linear up to 5 cm long
• Opposite
• Entire or slightly lobed
• Stems 1 to few, much branched