Tahoka Daisy

 

Marketing is everything and horticulture centers  sell Tahoka Daisy seeds.  The story goes, according to the City of Tahoka website, that about 1898 the Tahoka Lake Ranch's foreman's wife noticed these flowers.  About 25 years later Mrs. W. A. Myrick of Lubbock became enamored with the flower and convinced Burpee's to include it in their seed catalog.  The Tahoka Rotarians carried seed packets to Rotary International conventions and distributed them to delegates from every state. You can probably find a Tahoka Daisy in a nearby vacant lot.  One woman's wildflower in another's weed.

 

Lubbock County, Texas