Ox-eye Daisy: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum
: Asteraceae
Ox-eye Daisy © RSWacha, 1998
Description:
Flowering heads have conspicuous white ray flowers that surround a distinctive center of yellow to gold disc flowers. Involucral bracts are lance-shaped. Leaves occur individually on the stem, and attach directly by their base or by a long, winged petiole. Leaves are narrow and ob-ovate in shape. Leaf margins are divided into small, evenly-spaced, tooth-like lobes. The upper part of the stem, that bears the single, mature, flowering head, may appear elongate and bare, having only 1 or 2, small, bract-like leaves. This species occurs in fields and along roadsides from May through September. The flower is known also as Leucanthemum vulgare, by some sources. Native of Europe.