Platyschkuhria is a genus of North American flowering plants in the daisy family.Rydberg, Per Axel. 1906. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 33(3): 154-155 in RnhlidhTropicos, Platyschkuhria (A. Gray) Rydb. It contains a single species, Platyschkuhria integrifolia, the basindaisy. It is native to the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Montana (Carbon County), Utah, and Wyoming in the western United States.Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution mapCanyon Country Wildflowers, Damian Fagan, 2nd ed., 2012, Morris Bush Publishing, LLC. in cooperation with Canyonlands Natural History Association,
It grows in clay soils in desert shrub, pinyon juniper woodland, and mountain brush communities.
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