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Bellis perennis

(Bruisewort)

Overview

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Bruisewort, Common Daisy, Daisy, English Daisy, English Lawn Daisy, European Daisy, Lawn Daisy, Lawndaisy

Common Names in Finnish:

Kaunokainen

Common Names in French:

Pâquerette, Pâquerette Commune

Common Names in German:

Gänseblümchen, Tausendschön

Common Names in Italian:

Bellide, Margherite, Pratolina

Common Names in Romanian:

Bănuţi, Părăluţe

Common Names in Russian:

Margaritka, маргаритка

Common Names in Spanish:

Vellorita

Common Names in Swedish:

Tusensköna

Description

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Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Genus Bellis

Perennials [annuals ], 5-20 cm (scapiform ; rhizomes herbaceous [roots fibrous ]). Stems erect , simple , strigose . Leaves basal (mostly) [sometimes cauline, reduced]; alternate; petiolate ; blades 1-nerved, obovate-spatulate to rounded , margins crenate-serrate, strigose. Heads radiate , borne singly. Involucres hemispheric , [3-]4-6[-8] × 9-13 mm. Phyllaries 13-14+ in (1-) 2(-3) series 1-nerved, oblong , subequal , herbaceous, margins entire, abaxial faces strigose. Receptacles conic [hemispheric or nearly flat] (± elongating with age), pitted , epaleate. Ray florets 35-90 (in [1-]3-4 series), pistillate , fertile ; corollas abaxially often pink- or purplish-tinged, adaxially white (closing at night). Disc florets 60-80+, bisexual , fertile; corollas pale yellow, tubes much shorter than funnelform [tubular ] throats , lobes 5, erect or incurved , deltate; style-branch appendages deltate. Cypselae obconic, compressed , marginally 2-ribbed, eglandular [gland-dotted (sessile) ], faces short-strigose [glabrous or ciliate-margined]; pappi 0 [bristles ]. x = 9.

Species 15: introduced , North America; Mediterranean basin , Europe, n Africa, Macaronesia; introduced also to temperate areas worldwide.

O. Fiz et al. (2002) showed that Bellis is closely related to Bellium Linnaeus and Bellidiastrum michelii Cassini (syn. Aster bellidiastrum Scopoli). Subtribe Bellidinae (Cassini ex D. Don) Bentham should be expanded to include the latter in a group of scapiform perennials or annuals. Fiz et al. showed also that Crinitaria and Galatella (two segregates of Aster in the broad sense complex ) are sister to Bellidinae. Exact relationships of this group to other subtribes of Astereae are still undetermined.[1]

Physical Description

Species Bellis perennis

Rhizomes short, erect , herbaceous. Leaves: petioles winged , equaling or longer than blades ; blades 6-40 × 4-20 mm, bases ± attenuate, apices rounded . Peduncles lax , (3-) 5-15(-20) cm. Phyllaries: margins ciliolate , particularly distally, apices obtuse. Ray corollas 4-8(-11) mm. Disc corollas 1.5 mm. Cypselae 1-2 mm. 2n = 18. [source]

Habit: Forb/herb

Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May, June, July, August, September. • Flower Color: near white, pink, white

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 6-12" tall.

Habitat

Lawns and moist, waste places, roadsides; 0-500+ m [2].

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,212 meters (0 to 13,819 feet).[3]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 6-9" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b. (map)

Taxonomy

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Similar Species

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Members of the genus Bellis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

B. perennis (Bruisewort) · B. perennis 'Deep Rose' (Bruisewort) · B. perennis 'Habanera Mix' (Bruisewort) · B. perennis 'Habanera White With Red Tips' (Bruisewort) · B. perennis 'Monstrosa Mixed' (Bruisewort) · B. perennis 'Pomponette Pink' (Bruisewort) · B. perennis 'Pomponette Red' (Bruisewort) · B. perennis 'Robella' (Bruisewort) · B. perennis 'Rob Roy' (English Daisy) · B. perennis 'Super Enorma' (Bruisewort) · B. perennis 'Tasso White' (Bruisewort)

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Further Reading

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 12, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Luc Brouillet "Bellis". in Flora of North America Vol. 20 Page 16,20, 22, 23. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. "Bellis perennis". in Flora of North America Vol. 20 Page 21,23. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  3. Mean = 177.590 meters (582.644 feet), Standard Deviation = 209.780 based on 8,908 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/15/2012