Scientific Name: Leucanthemum vulgare
Common Name: oxeye daisy
Family Name: Asteraceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Irregular
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: n/a
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Obovate, Spatulate, Crenate, Entire, Pinnately lobed, Pectinate, Serrate
Flowers: Head (capitulum), White, Jun-Jul
Fruit: Achene, Brown, Aug-Sep
Key ID Features:
Stems fluted with reddish lines, 60-100cm tall with creeping rhizomes; leaves basal and alternate, most obovate-spatulate, 2.5-10cm long, margin variable, petioles long on basal leaves to absent on upper stem leaves; heads 2-5cm wide, with 12-30 white ray florets have slight lobes in the end of the petal ray, disc florets bright yellow, heads solitary or 2-6(-10) in a corymb-like arrangement on a long peduncle.