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Scientific Name: | Leucanthemum x superbum |
Common Name: | Shasta daisy |
Family Name: | Asteraceae |
Origin: | Garden origin |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
Habit: | Arching, Dense, Open, Spreading |
Form: | Mounded, Oval - vertical |
Texture: | Medium |
Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Summer interest |
Exposure: | Full sun |
Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Lobed, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Lanceolate, Oblanceolate, Dentate, Serrate |
Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Jun-Jul-Aug |
Fruit: | Achene, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Aug-Sep-Oct |
Key ID Features: | |
Basal leaves lanceolate with serrated margins, 20-30cm long, dark green, fleshy; stem leaves sessile, lanceolate, 8-15cm long x 1-3 cm wide; flower heads solitary, 8-10cm wide, ray florets white, disk florets yellow. |