Large White Mountain Daisy
Erigeron Coulteri, T.C. Porter. Composite Family
Stem.—Six to twenty inches high; leafy; bearing solitary or rarely two or three large, slender-peduncled heads. Leaves.—Obovate to oblong; entire or with several sharp teeth; thin. Flower-heads.—Of yellow disk-flowers, and usually pure white ray-flowers. Disk.—Half an inch wide. Rays.—Fifty to seventy; narrowly linear; six lines or more long. Hab.—The Sierras; also the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
“High on the crest of the blossoming grasses,
Bending and swaying, with face toward the sky,
Stirred by the lightest west wind as it passes,
Hosts of the silver-white daisy-stars lie.”
No fairer sight could be imagined than a mountain meadow filled with these large, pure-white, feathery daisies.
BACCHARIS—Baccharis Douglasii.