Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( White ), 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Rock Lettuce, White Dandelion, White Rock-lettuce, Pink Dandelion (Pinaropappus roseus), Asteraceae Family, Texas native, perennial, blooms March through August

Rock lettuce is an upright plant that attains a height of between six and eighteen inches. It natively grows in dry gravelly or calcareous soils on hillsides, rock ledges, gravel deposits and rock outcrops and the edges of thickets, gravelly creekbeds and woodlands. The alternate 2 to 4 inch long leaves are very narrow and lobed. They are crowded at the base and farther up, are very narrow and shallowly lobed or entire. The stem may have no upper leaves. The beautiful blooms are between 1 and 2 inches across and have no disk flowers. The upper side of blooms are yellowish to white and the underside may be pink to dark rose-lavendar. Interestingly, the bloom starts out rolled lengthwise and forms a narrow tube which slowly expands and flattens as the bloom opens.

Texas distribution:
http://plants.usda.gov/java/county?state_name=Texas&statefip...

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/58252/index.html

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