Crown Daisy

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

Robison Herb Garden

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