Crown Daisy
Glebionis coronaria
Asteraceae
Growth habit
Herbaceous
Perennation
Annual
Native distribution
North Africa, Meditteranean
Biocultural value
In Japan bitter leaves are eaten fresh in salads or as cooked greens. Flowers are added to soups.
Location
Source of plant
Richters
Description
Leaf blades oblong to obovate, mostly 30–55+ — 15–30+ mm, mostly 2–3-pinnately lobed, ultimate margins dentate. Ray corollas pale yellow, sometimes white-tipped, laminae oblong to linear, 15–25 mm. Ray cypselae triquetrous, 2.5–3 mm, angles ± winged, faces obscurely nerved or ribbed; disc cypselae ± prismatic, ± compressed, 2.5–3 mm, obscurely ribbed, sometimes with adaxial (rarely the abaxial) rib ± winged.
USDA Hardiness Zone
9
Special characteristics
food