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Leucanthemum vulgare (oxeye daisy)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Leucanthemum vulgare, the ox-eye daisy, or oxeye daisy, is a widespread flowering plant native to Europe and the temperate regions of Asia and an introduced plant to North America, Australia and New Zealand. It is one of a number of family Asteraceae plants to be called a "daisy", and has the additional vernacular names common daisy, dog daisy and moon daisy. L. vulgare is a typical grassland perennial wildflower, growing in a variety of plant communities including meadows and fields, under scrub and open-canopy forests, and in disturbed areas.
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Infraspecies

Chrysanthemum leucanthemum f. tubuliflorum
Chrysanthemum vulgare var. pinnatifidum
Leucanthemum vulgare pannonicum
Leucanthemum vulgare parviceps
Leucanthemum vulgare var. apicola
Leucanthemum vulgare vulgare

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [2]  White
Foliage Color [2]  Green
Fruit Color [2]  Brown
Bloom Period [2]  Summer
Dispersal Mode [5]  Epizoochory
Drought Tolerance [2]  Medium
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [2]  Low
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [2]  4 months 10 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [2]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [2]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [2]  Fall
Growth Form [2]  Bunch
Growth Period [2]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [2]  Moderate
Hazards [2]  Slight Toxicity
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [3]  Bees, Flies, Beetles, Lepidoptera, Bats
Propagation [2]  Seed
Root Depth [2]  8 inches (20 cm)
Scent [3]  The flowers have a smell like stale perspiration.
Seed Spread Rate [2]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [2]  Medium
Seeds Per [2]  200000 / lb (440924 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Erect
Structure [6]  Herb
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  None
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Height [3]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 4 Low Temperature: -30 F° (-34.4 C°) → -20 F° (-28.9 C°)
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [4]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [4]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [4]  Mostly Dry
Water Use [2]  Low
Screening - Summer [2]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [2]  Porous
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Ecosystems

Emblem of

Latvia

Predators

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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Peronospora radii[7]
Puccinia cnici-oleracei[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
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♦ 6Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Ecology of Commanster
♦ 9Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 10Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 11New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 12Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0