Wildflowers of Greater Arizona
		
		
	
	
	
	
	
	 
		
Rose Heath. 
		
Chaetopappa ericoides. 
		
Aster (Asteraceae) family.
	
	 
		A 6-12 cm perennial forming beds or clumps of large, separate tufts connected by underground rhizomes and caudexlike, scaly-leaved stems. Leaves are even-sized, densely overlapping; blades linear-oblanceolate to lanceolate. Involucres turbinate to hemispheric, 3.5-7 × 4-8 mm. Ray florets 8-24; corollas white. Disc florets 12-24, bisexual.
			
			
White Mountains.
			
Location: Torreon Community at Show Low.
			
6/9/15
			
					
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