Common Daisy ( Flower )

Description:

Order: Asterales Family: Asteraceae Genus: Bellis Bellis perennis, is sometimes called, common daisy, lawn daisy, or English daisy. It is a herbaceous perennial plant, with short creeping rhizomes and rosettes, of small rounded or spoon-shaped leaves, that are from three fourths to two inches long. The flowerheads are composite, in the form of a pseudanthium, consisting of many sessile flowers, about three fourths inches in diameter, with white way florets, and yellow disc florets. The capitulum, or disc of florets, is surrounded by two rows of green bracts, known as "phyllaries". It can generally be grown in USDA Zones 4 to 8. Flowers of Bellis perennis, first appear in early spring, and the plant continues blooming all through summer and into autumn. In May, these robust wildflowers, are usually at there very best. These flowers are pollinated by bees, bumblebees, beetles, and hoverflies. Rarely more than a cm tall, this grassland perennial, has a basal rosette of spoon-shaped leaves, and leafless stalks, each topped by one individual ( but composite ) 'flower', comprising a central group of yellow disc florets, surrounded by white ray florets. The overall diameter of a Common Daisy 'flower', is usually between 11.2 and 2.4 cm. The parts of a daisy: 1. Rhizome 2. Basal leaves 3. Flower stalk 4. Bracts 5. Inflorescence of the plant, which has tiny yellow flowers.

Habitat:

It is a common weed of meadows and fields. Found in all types of mown, trampled or grazed calcareous and neutral grassland, but thrives best in areas that become fairly wet for some of the year. This species is known chiefly as a weed for lawns, pastureland, and roadside verges, but it also occurs on riverbanks, dune-slacks, and lake margins. Common Daises or simply Daisies, grows in lawns, churchyards, play fields, and parks-indeed they seem able to thrive almost anywhere that permanent meadows or other kinds of grassland, are kept to a short sward, either by moderate grazing, frequent mowing, or just passage of people's feet.

Notes:

One day, in the early afternoon, I went into the woods, to find some wildflowers to photograph. I came upon a small clearing, that was covered with many varieties of wildflowers. I took some photos, and I also studied the different varieties of wildflowers, with my Field Guides. I was very much interested, in the Common Daisy Wildflower. The parts of a Common Daisy Wildflower: 1. Rhizome 2. Basal leaves 3. Flower stalk 4. Bracts 5. Inflorescence of the plant, which have tiny yellow flowers.