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Descriptive Flora 



Stems tufted at base and branched above. Leaves simple, alter- 

 nate. Blades spatulate to broadly linear, 1 to 2 inches long, 

 entire, sessile, white woolly beneath, less so and greener above. 

 Flowers silvery-white, crowded in compact heads about 

 across at the ends of short, stout, woolly, axillary peduncles. 

 April to fall. In dry, rocky creek bottoms of the Edwards 

 Plateau. Comparatively rare. 



Melampodium cinereum DC. Rock Daisy. White Daisy. 



Mountain Daisy. 



A white daisy-like flower of the limestone hills and hillsides. 

 Low plants with somewhat spreading branches that come from a 

 common tough, perennial root. Upper leaves simple, opposite. 

 Blades narrow, entire or wavy. Flowers composite, about 1 inch 

 across, white with yellow centers. Eays 5 to 11, white, 2 or 3 

 toothed at the tip. Each of the 5 to 11 black seeds is contained 

 in a tiny cup like hood formed by a bract of the inner involucre. 

 Outer involucre is composed of 4 or 5 broad, flat, leafy bracts. 

 The numerous tiny yellow disk flowers are sterile. March to 

 November. 



Berlandiera dealbata (Torr. & Gray) Small. 



Leafy plants, 1 to 3 feet high, with densely white woolly 

 stems, simple ovate leaves that are green above and whitish un- 

 derneath, and composite flowers each with about 8 yellow ray 

 flowers and a flat green or red disk. Disk flowers when mature 

 are 5-lobed, small, dark red or purplish. Ray flowers about y<£ 

 long, deeply notched at the tip and folded around a branched red 

 stigma at the base. Leaves simple, alternate. Blades ovate to 

 ovoid, crenate-margined, 1 to 4" long, green above, whitish under- 

 neath. Flowers solitary on short, woolly, leafless peduncles. 

 Involucre flat, consisting of about 3 series of fairly broad green 

 veined bracts. Achenes flattened, not notched at apex and 

 having no pappus. In sandy soil in the southern part of the 

 county. 



