Easter Daisy Traditional Cache

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KansasKacher: I had gotten permission from an individual to hide these caches. Not sure if there has been a change of management, but I have been asked to remove them.

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Hidden : 4/15/2021
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This cache is part of the Smoky Valley Scenic Byway Wildflower Series. 

Caches will be named after a Kansas Wildflower with information.  Try to find them all!

Suggested equipment: a log roller and a step stool.

Height: 1-3 inches
Family: Asteraceae - Sunflower Family
Flowering Period:   March, April, May
Also Called:   Stemless townsendia.
Stems:   Stemless or nearly so, from woody taproot.
Leaves:   Basal, crowded, linear-oblanceolate, 1/2 to 3 inches long, up to 1/4 inch wide, stiff-hairy or nearly silky; margins entire.
Inflorescences:   Heads, 1 to 1.5 inch across, sessile among tufts of leaves.
Flowers:   Involucral bracts overlapping in 4-7 series, narrowly-lanceolate, tips pointed; ray florets 20-40, 1/2 to 1 inch long, less than 1/8 inch wide, white or pinkish, often with dark stripe below; disk floret corollas 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, yellow, tips sometimes pinkish or purplish.
Fruits:   Achenes, flattened, less than 1/4 inch long, pubescent; pappus of ray and disk flowers rigid, finely-barbed bristles, about twice as long as achenes.
Habitat:   Open, dry prairies and plains, often on eroding limestone slopes.
Distribution:   West 2/3 of Kansas.
Uses:   The Blackfeet used a decoction of the roots to treat tired horses.
Comments:   Easter daisy is one of our earliest blooming wildflowers. Named for David Townsend, 1787-1858, an amateur botanist in Pennsylvania. The ray florets curl under at night.

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