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Townsendia aprica
Also called Last Chance Townsendia
Last Chance Townsend daisy is a rare, low perennial herb in the daisy family, forming tight clumps only a few centimeters wide and found only in Utah. It is a federally listed threatened species, so it should be left alone in the wild and grown only from responsibly sourced material.
Townsendia aprica is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Last Chance Townsend daisy. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it is known from three counties. It faces a number of threats and it is a federally listed threatened species of the United States.
This plant is a perennial herb forming a clump just a few centimeters wide and one or two centimeters tall. The rough-haired spatula-shaped leaves are generally under a centimeter long but may be slightly longer. The flower heads lie directly on top of the clump rather than erect on stalks. Each head contains up to 21 ray florets roughly half a centimeter long. They are yellow orange in color, aging cream or white. The flower gets its species name from the apricot shade of its ray florets. There are many disc florets at the center.
Cushion Townsend daisy · Tall Townsend daisy · Stemless Townsend daisy · Showy Townsendia · Gray's Townsend daisy · Largeflower Townsend daisy · Hooker's Townsend daisy · Common Townsend daisy · Rothrock's Townsend daisy · Tufted Townsend daisy · Townsend daisy
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Townsendia aprica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
