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Philip Wright · 13-08-2008, 04:23 PM posted to sci.bio.botany

wrote:
Hey! I was at a camp earlier this summer and there was a pretty cool
flower there. I'm going to give you the best verbal (textal?)
description i can...

It was in Forest Falls CA. thats at about 5,000 ft. elev. temp range
from 70-85 F during the day. The flower itself looked like a large
daisy with fewer but larger petals. It was white in color and had a
diameter of about 4 in. My attention was grabbed most by this flowers
sweet smell. I found a small patch of them growing out of a gravel
dirt mix on the banks of a creek running along the base of San
Gogornio mt.

I know this seems like a pretty stupid question, but if there are any
botanists living in Forest Falls CA, I just might get lucky. Thanks
all!

Hi,

Daisies are in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and there are
many species in CA. Most Asteraceous flowers have no smell, so
the clue that yours is aromatic leads me to think that it is
probably from a different family. Try looking in the "Geum"
genus. Geums are in the Rose family "Rosaceae" and there are
many alpine species. Can you get a photo?

_philip