| Chrysanthemum leucinthemum L. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Leucanthemum leucanthemum (L.) Rydb., Leucanthemum vulgare Lam. | ||
| Common name | marguerite, white daisy | ||
| Description | Stem from woody rootstock, with nonflowering rosettes; basal leaves obovate- spatulate, crenate-dentate; upper leaves oblong, sessile, toothed to pinnatifid; heads solitary; involucral bracts lanceolate to oblong, green, with narrow, dark-purplish, scarious margin; ray flowers white; disk flowers yellow. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places; an introduced weed. Described from Europe. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.