Rose Heath, Baby White, Baby Aster, Sand Aster,Chaetopappa ericoides,Sunflower Family (Asteraceae)

Found in dry open areas, roadsides
Seen blooming in June by the road to Abiquiu Lake
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The Rose Heath is neither a rose nor a heath. Its dainty white flowers look like daisies but are not daisies, although in the same family. It grows in groups of plants to 6 inches high with many slender stems, often forming a compact mound. The simple narrow leaves are heath-like and hairy. Its petals curl under in the evening and after rain. Native Americans found a variety of medicinal uses for the petite Rose Heath. The Havasupai used it as a gastrointestinal aid, the Hopi used it to aid ‘a sore nose’, as a panacea, a sedative, a stimulant and for determining the sex of a baby, the Navajo used it for kidney and bladder disease, and as a toothache and snakebite remedy and the Zuni used it as a cold remedy and for swelling and rheumatic pain. Source.
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