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Oxeye daisy (Leucantheum vulgare) A close-up of the flowers
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Asterales Family: Asteraceae Subfamily: Asteroideae Tribe: Anathemideae Genus: Leucanthemum Mill., 1754
Species
see text Image File history File links Leucanthemum-vulgare01. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families See text The Asterales are an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants which include the composite family Asteraceae (sunflowers and daisies) and its related families. ... Genera many, see list The aster or sunflower family (Family Asteraceae or, alternatively Family Compositae) is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants. ... Philip Miller (1691 - 1771) was a botanist of Scottish descent. ... 1754 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Leucanthemum is a genus of about 70 flowering plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Genera many, see list The aster or sunflower family (Family Asteraceae or, alternatively Family Compositae) is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants. ...

The name Leucanthemum derives from the Greek words leukos, "white," and anthemon, "flower”.

It occurs in Europe, Northern Africa and the temperate regions of Asia. Many species have been introduced into America, and even Australia and New Zealand.

It consists of clumped rhizomatous perennials, or rarely annuals, growing to a height of 30cm - 1 m. A Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ... An annual is a plant that usually germinates, flowers and dies in one year. ...

They were split from the genus Chrysanthemum, because they are not aromatic and their leaves lack grayish-white hairs. Species - tricolor daisy - pyrethrum - pyrethum daisy - crown daisy - marguerite - daisy - florists           chrysanthemum C. segetum - corndaisy Ref: ITIS 35791 See also Daisy (disambiguation) The chrysanthemum, also known as the mum, is a flowering perennial plant of the genus Chrysanthemum in the daisy family (Asteraceae). ...

The herbaceous, fast-growing stem is mostly unbranched and sprouts laterally from a creeping rootstock. The stem is glabrous or hairy below. In common parlance, a stem is any elongated, usually narrow, extension or supporting structure of an object. ...

The alternate leaves are cauline. The margins are singly to doubly toothed. In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ...

The daisy-like flower heads are terminal, mostly solitary, such as in the Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum x superbum), and rarely a few in corymbs, such as in the Oxyeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare). They vary in diameter from 3 to 8 cm. The flowers are pedunculate with involucral bracts and a flat or convex receptacle. They form 2 to 4 whorls. Wildflowers Flower (Latin flos, floris; French fleur), a term popularly used for the bloom or blossom of a plant, is the reproductive structure of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ...

There are about twenty ligulate, white or pinkish ray florets. These are usually female, rarely bisexual. The numerous, tubular, yellow disc florets are bisexual.

This genus has an abundant production of 10-ribbed achenes (flat seeds) with mucilaginous cells . The pappus is usually absent, or just a small corona or auricle. Species of this genus also spread vegetatively by rooting underground stems. SEED is a block cipher developed by the Korean Information Security Agency. ...

Leucanthemum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Hypercompe indecisa. A larva (Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of animal with indirect development, undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects or amphibians). ... Super Families Butterflies Hesperioidea Papilionoidea Moths Micropterigoidea Heterobathmioidea Eriocranioidea Acanthopteroctetoidea Lophocoronoidea Neopseustoidea Mnesarchaeoidea Hepialoidea Nepticuloidea Incurvarioidea Palaephatoidea Tischeriodea Simaethistoidea Tineoidea Gracillarioidea Yponomeutoidea Gelechioidea Zygaenoidea Sesioidea Cossoidea Tortricoidea Choreutoida Urodoidea Galacticoidea Schreckensteinioidea Epermenioidea Pterophoroidea Aluctoidea Immoidea Axioidea Hyblaeoidea Thyridoidea Whalleyanoidea Pyraloidea Mimallonoidea Lasiocampoidea Geometroidea Drepanoidea Bombycoidea Calliduloidae Hedyloidea Noctuoidea Families About... Hypercompe is a genus of moths of the family Arctiidae. ...

Most species are considered obnoxious weeds. The Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum x superbum) is an ornamental with many cultivars, ideal for cut flowers, such as ‘Aglaia’, ‘Esther Read’, ‘Wirral Pride’, ‘Wirral Supreme’, ‘Tinkerbell’ and ‘Snow Lady’. Dandelions, shown here in proliferation, are commonly thought of as weeds. ...

Species

• Leucanthemum adustum
• Leucanthemum ageratifolium Pau
• Leucanthemum aligatum R. Vogt
• Leucanthemum aligulatum
• Leucanthemum alpinum Lam.
• Leucanthemum arundanum
• Leucanthemum atratum aggr.
• Leucanthemum burnatii Briq. & Cavill.
• Leucanthemum catalaunicum
• Leucanthemum catananche (Ball) Maire
  • Leucanthemum ceratophylloides ssp. tenuifolium (Guss.) Bazzich. & Marchi
• Leucanthemum chloroticum Kerner & Murb.
• Leucanthemum coronarium
• Leucanthemum crassifolium
• Leucanthemum decipiens Pomel
• Leucanthemum delarbrei Timb.-Lagr.
• Leucanthemum depressum (Ball) Maire
• Leucanthemum discoideum (All.) H.J.Coste
• Leucanthemum favargeri
• Leucanthemum gallaecicum Rodr.-Oubiña et S. Ortíz
• Leucanthemum gaudinii DT.
• Leucanthemum gayanum (Coss. & Durieu) Maire
  • Leucanthemum glabrum f. pinnatisectum Pau
• Leucanthemum gracilicaule (Dufour) Pau
• Leucanthemum graminifolium (L.) Lam.
• Leucanthemum halleri Ducomm.
• Leucanthemum heterophyllum (Willd.) DC.
• Leucanthemum integrifolium (Richards.) DC. : Entire-leaf Daisy
• Leucanthemum hultenii A
• Leucanthemum irctianum de Candolle
• Leucanthemum ircutianum Turcz. ex DC.
  • Leucanthemum ircutianum ssp. crassifolium (Lange) Vogt
• Leucanthemum laciniatum Huter, P.& R.
• Leucanthemum lacustre (Brot.) Samp. : Portuguese Daisy
• Leucanthemum maestracense
• Leucanthemum margaritae (Gáyer ex Jáv.) Zeleny
• Leucanthemum maximum (Ramond) DC. : Shasta Daisy
• Leucanthemum merinoi Vogt. & Castroviejo
• Leucanthemum montserratianum R. Vogt
• Leucanthemum nipponicum Franch. ex Maxim. : Nippon Daisy
• Leucanthemum pallena (Gay) DC.
• Leucanthemum pallens (Gay) DC.
• Leucanthemum palmatum
• Leucanthemum paludosum (Poir.) Pomel
• Leucanthemum pluriflorum Pau
• Leucanthemum praecox (Harvatic) Harvatic
• Leucanthemum pujiulae Sennen
• Leucanthemum subalpinum (Schur) Tzvelev
• Leucanthemum superbum (J.W. Ingram) Berg. ex Kent.
• Leucanthemum sylvaticum (Hoffmans & Link) Nyman
• Leucanthemum tridactylites (Fiori) Bazzich.
• Leucanthemum valentinum Pau
• Leucanthemum vulgare Lam. Oxeye Daisy
• Leucanthemum waldsteinii (Sch.Bip.) Pouzar
• Leucanthemum weyrichii Maxim.

Hybrid

• Leucanthemum x superbum ( = L. lacustre x L. maximum) : Shasta Daisy