Melampodium leucanthum (Blackfoot Daisy)
15 (25)cm, Blackfoot Daisy is a most ornamental perennial with very large, daisy-like white flowers and a yellow center above fine foliage. Native of open spots in woods and meadows in southwestern USA.
Melampodium leucanthum (Blackfoot daisy)
Photo/Illustration: Alan Franz
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Melampodium leucanthum
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Blackfoot Daisy
Description
Melampodium leucanthum produces fragrant honey scented flowers from spring until fall. Flowers are white with yellow centers and look like daisies.
Melampodium's bight yellow flowers are handsomely presented against bright green foliage thoughout the summer.
Description
The melampodium is one of the most prolific of summer annuals, in more ways than one.
Butter Daisy
Scientific Name: Melampodium paludosum
Synonym:
Family: Asteraceae ...
Melampodium paludosum Melampodium
annual, easy care
created by ladybug
zones: 3a thru 11b ...
Melampodium paludosum, Asteraceae, MELAMPODIUM
Native to southwestern US, Mexico, and West Indies. Leaves opposite, 2-3 inches long or longer, margins vary from entire to finely serate, to lobed. Leaves may be course with rough surface.
Melampodium divaricatum
Dysodium divaricatum, Melampodium paludosum
Asteraceae ...
Gold Medallion
Melampodium paludosum
15 to 24"
12"
Sun; well-drained soil; heat and humidity tolerant.
Blackfoot daisy (Melampodium leucanthum)
Plant size: 6 to 18 inches high, 1 to 4 feet wide.
Where it grows: Rocky hillsides, mesas, eastern edge of the Sonoran Desert, southwestern quarter of Great Plains, below 5,000 feet in Chihuahuan Desert.
African zinnia (Zinnia melampodium, Zinnia elegans)
Agave cactus (Leuchtenbergia principes)
Agave, century plant (Agave species)
Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria)
Aichryson (Aichryson species)
Alder (Alnus species)
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) ...
Gold Medallion Flower [English]: Melampodium paludosum 'Million Gold'
Gold Medallion Flower [English]: Melampodium paludosum
Gold Medallion Flower [English]: Melampodium paludosum 'Showstar' ...
---History---According to Pliny, Black Hellebore was used as a purgative in mania byMelampus, a soothsayer and physician, 1,400 years before Christ, hence the name Melampodium applied to Hellebores.
 See also: Daisy, Green, Pink, Blackfoot, Aster
  
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