Townsendia florifera
Asteraceae
Showy Townsendia
Rosette winter-hardy, with erect, spreading stems. Leaves ash gray, oval, entire, widest at tip end, 1/2–1 1/2 in. including long petiole. Stems leafy, often branched, topped with flower heads. Flower heads with 18–30 pink, pale lavender, or white ray flowers, each ray 1/4–1/2 in. long; many yellow disk flowers with projecting tufts of hair. Grows in gravelly and sandy places in sagebrush-steppe. Very similar T. parryi has flowers and basal leaves about 1/2 as big.
- Rarity: Locally Common
- Flowering Time: Late Spring, Early Summer
- Flower Form: 5 United Petals, Ovary Inferior; Sunflowers
- Life Cycle: Annual
- Height: 2–8 inches
- Habitat: Shrub-Steppe
- Native: Yes
