Do you know the Tahoka daisy?
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It looks like a little sun with purple rays. This flower followed us in a camping trip through northern Texas. Pretty flower, pretty foliage with hairy cover - photo taken in Palo Duro Canyon . "Discovered" in 1898 by the Tahoka Lake in Texas, this plant got a horrible name for science: Machaeranthera tanacetifolia. The combination of Greek and Latin means "swordlike anthers" with "fern-like leaves". The "swords" are the filaments and anthers of the flowers. Tahoka daisy is a better name. It's said that "Tahoka" means "fresh water" or "deep water" in an unidentified American Indian language. The plant also was known as prairie aster since 1832 - that's why I wrote "discovered" in 1898 referring to the use of the Tahoka name. These daisies love rocks and sand and dryness and the sun. Tough survivors of t