 Daisy flower extreme close-up Bellis perennis is a common European species of Daisy, often considered the archetypal species of that name, though many other related plants share the name; to distinguish it from other daisies, it is sometimes qualified as Common Daisy, Lawn Daisy or occasionally English daisy. It is native to western, central and northern Europe. The species is widely naturalized in North America, where it is considered an invasive weed. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1500x1461, 477 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): User:Ihcoyc User:Zarggg User:Bluejay Young User talk:Grutter User:Milovoo Bellis perennis User talk:El C...
Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ...
Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta—liverworts Anthocerotophyta—hornworts Bryophyta—mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta—rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta—zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta—clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta—trimerophytes Pteridophyta—ferns and horsetails Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta—seed ferns Pinophyta—conifers Cycadophyta—cycads Ginkgophyta—ginkgo Gnetophyta—gnetae Magnoliophyta—flowering plants...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are the dominant and most familiar group of land plants. ...
Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ...
Families Alseuosmiaceae Argophyllaceae Asteraceae - Daisies Calyceraceae Campanulaceae (incl. ...
Diversity About 1500 genera and 23,000 species Type Genus Aster L. Subfamilies Barnadesioideae Cichorioideae Tribe Arctotidae Tribe Cardueae Tribe Eremothamneae Tribe Lactuceae Tribe Liabeae Tribe Mutisieae Tribe Tarchonantheae Tribe Vernonieae Asteroideae Tribe Anthemideae Tribe Astereae Tribe Calenduleae Tribe Eupatorieae Tribe Gnaphalieae Tribe Helenieae Tribe Heliantheae Tribe Inuleae Tribe Plucheae...
Species See text Bellis is a small genus of 15 species in the family Asteraceae. ...
In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. ...
Carl Linnaeus, Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , (May 23, 1707[1] – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[2] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ...
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Look up daisy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ...
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It is a herbaceous plant with short creeping rhizomes and small rounded or spoon-shaped evergreen leaves 2–5 cm long. The flowerheads are 2–3 cm in diameter, with white ray florets (often tipped red) and yellow disc florets; they are produced on leafless stems 2–10 cm (rarely 15 cm) tall. The lawn daisy is a dicot. This article is about the plants used in cooking and medicine. ...
Ginger rhizome A rhizome is, in botany, a usually underground, horizontal stem of a plant that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. ...
Red clover inflorescence (spike) An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers on a branch of a plant. ...
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It is thought that the name "daisy" is a corruption of "day's eye", because the whole head closes at night and opens in the morning. Chaucer called it "eye of the day". Chaucer: Illustration from Cassells History of England, circa 1902 Chanticleer the rooster from an outdoor production of Chanticleer and the Fox at Ashby_de_la_Zouch castle Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. ...
Daisy is also a common girl's name - in fact it is a nickname for girls called Margaret.
Uses It is not affected by mowing and is therefore often considered a weed on lawns, though many also value the appearance of the flowers. Several cultivars and hybrids have been selected with much larger flowerheads up to 5–6 cm diameter and with light pink to purple-red ray florets. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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This Osteospermum Pink Whirls is a successful cultivar. ...
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Bellis perennis is also a widely used homeopathic remedy. Herbalists use it to treat kidney problems, rheumatism, arthritis, bronchitis and diarrhoea. It also has astringent properties.[1] Homeopathy (also spelled homœopathy or homoeopathy), from the Greek words όμοιος, hómoios (similar) and πάθος, páthos (suffering)[1], is a controversial subset of alternative medicine practices that aims to treat like with like. ...
See also Herbalism A Herbalist is: 1. ...
The kidneys are organs that filter wastes (such as urea) from the blood and excrete them, along with water, as urine. ...
Rheumatism or Rheumatic disorder is a non-specific term for medical problems affecting the heart, bones, joints, kidney, skin and lung. ...
Arthritis (from Greek arthro-, joint + -itis, inflammation; plural: arthritides) is a group of conditions where there is damage caused to the joints of the body. ...
Bronchitis is inflammation of the bronchi (medium-size airways) in the lungs. ...
Diarrhoea is the correct way to spell the word Diarrhoea. ...
An astringent substance is a chemical substance that tends to shrink or constrict body tissues, usually locally after topical medicinal application. ...
References - ^ Howard, Michael. Traditional Folk Remedies (Century, 1987), p129
External links - Bellis perennis (USDA plant profile)
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