Shasta daisy
Leucanthemum × superbum (Bergmans ex J.W.Ingram) D.H.Kent
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 80 cm
- wide
- 71 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Shasta Daisy
Formerly Chrysanthemum × superbum
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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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
- Nowhere: raised in cultivationKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 61 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; NC State Extension 2–4 ft
- Spread
- 51 cm to 91 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; NC State Extension 1–3 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -21.9 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS -15 °C; NC State Extension -28.9 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Estonian
- suureõieline härjasilm
- Swedish
- jätteprästkrage
- Lithuanian
- Puošnioji baltagalvė
- Russian
- Нивяник великолепный
- French
- Grande marguerite
- Finnish
- isopäivänkakkara
- German
- Garten-Margerite
- root
- Leucanthemum lacustre × maximum × vulgare
- Slovak
- margaréta nádherná
- Chinese (China)
- 大滨菊
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Leucanthemum × superbum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.