
Daisy
ഡേയ്സി
Bellis perennis L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 11 cm
- wide
- 15 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Lawn-daisy
Formerly Aster bellis, Bellis alpina, Bellis armena, Bellis croatica, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Madeira, Europe to Medit. and C. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 8 cm to 15 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 8 cm to 23 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, red, pink, purple, blueRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Gänseblümchen, Ausdauerndes Gänseblümchen
- French
- pâquerette
- Chinese
- 螺蛳, 雛菊, 雏菊
- Simplified Chinese
- 雏菊, 延命菊, 马兰头花
- Asturian
- mirasol
- Dutch
- Madeliefje, madeliefje
- Czech
- sedmikráska obecná
- Canadian English
- lawndaisy
- Finnish
- nurmikaunokainen
- Macedonian
- париче
- Slovenian
- navadna marjetica
- Malayalam
- ഡേയ്സി, ഡെയ്സി
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Bellis perennis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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