Ox-eye daisy
ഓക്സ് ഐ ഡെയ്സി
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 46 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Oxeye daisy, Oxeye Daisy
Formerly Chamaemelum leucanthemum, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, Chrysanthemum vulgare, Matricaria leucanthemum, and 3 more
When it flowers
Flowers April to May and September to November in the tropics.
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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Siberia and IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
ElderFlowers June to August and December to March, when this does not
Memorial RoseFlowers June to August and December to March, when this does not
PurslaneFlowers June to August and December to March, when this does not
Tree RhododendronFlowers June to August and December to March, when this does not
Japanese honeysuckleFlowers June to July and December to March, when this does not
PomegranateFlowers June to August and December to February, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Czech
- okruh kopretiny bílé, kopretina bílá
- German
- Artengruppe Magerwiesen-Margerite, Wiesenmargerite
- Slovak
- okruh margaréty bielej
- Swedish
- prästkrage
- Chinese
- 滨菊, 法國菊
- Asturian
- catasol grande
- Welsh
- Llygad-llo mawr
- Finnish
- ahopäivänkakkara
- French
- grande marguerite
- Dutch
- gewone margriet, Gewone margriet
- Slovenian
- rana ivanjščica
- Simplified Chinese
- 滨菊
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- 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, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Leucanthemum vulgare (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.