Rocky Mountain Daisy

Rocky Mountain Daisy (Townsendia) - A group of low-stemmed annual or perennial herbs with large Aster-like flowers, from the mountains of N.W. America. In some kinds the flowers are large and handsome, but only three are as yet in cultivation. T. grandiflora is a dwarf plant with grey foliage and large white flowers; T. sericea makes stemless rosettes of silvery leaves with a stemless flower 1 to 2 inches across in the centre of each, the rays of which are pure white or tipped with purple. This plant flowers so early as to have earned the name of Easter Daisy with the colonists. T. Wilcoxiana is a pretty little alpine plant of creeping habit, with rosy Aster-like flowers in May and June. All the kinds need a sheltered sunny place in light dry soil, and their degree of hardiness is not fully known.