Engelmanns Daisy

Engelmann's Daisy

Engelmannia peristenia (Raf.) Goodman & C.A. Lawson

Asteraceae (Sunflower Family)

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Engelmannia peristenia (Raf.) Goodman & C.A. Lawson, Engelmann’s Daisy: (Bayer Code: none; US Code ENPE4)

U.S. native simple perennial wildflower with a stout taproot that grows 6-24 inches tall, often with several to many branching stems; leaves and stems of plant are hairy
First forms a mounded rosette of leaves that are alternate, oval in outline, deeply pinnately-lobed with round-pointed lobes and leaf tips--leaves look sort of like an oak leaf; flowering stem leaves often smaller, not as deeply lobed
Flower head inflorescences are usually in loose clusters of 1-4, with a single head at the tip of moderately long flowering stems; flowering from spring to mid-summer
Individual flower heads are 1-2 inches diameter, and have 8-9 deep yellow ray flowers (“petals") and a 25-50 yellow to brownish disk flowers in the center of the head
Bracts below flowers are green, linear, hairy, with tips that curve out from the base of the head
Found in prairies, rangeland, right-of-ways
The relatively short, well-branched plant shape, large flowers, and deeply-lobed leaves help distinguish this unique plant from other, yellow daisy-flowered wildflowers or weeds