Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Common White Daisy, Ox-Eye Daisy, Oxeye Daisy
Common Names in Romanian:
Mărgărită
Description
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.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Compositae
()
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
()
- Tribe:
Anthemideae
()
- Subtribe:
Tanacetinae
()
- Genus:
Pyrethrum
()
- Specific epithet:
leucanthemum
- Franch.
- Botanical name: - Pyrethrum leucanthemum Franch.
- Specific epithet:
leucanthemum
- Franch.
- Genus:
Pyrethrum
(
- Subtribe:
Tanacetinae
(
- Tribe:
Anthemideae
(
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum L. • Leucanthemum Leucanthemum • Leucanthemum leucanthemum (L.) Rydb. • Matricaria Leucanthemum • Matricaria leucanthemum (L.) Desr. • Tanacetum Leucanthemum
Similar Species
Members of the genus Pyrethrum
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
P. coccineum (Pyrethum Daisy) · P. frutescens (Marguerite Daisy) · P. indicum (Mother's Daisy) · P. leucanthemum (Common White Daisy) · P. parthenium (Feverfew) · P. segetum (Corn Marigold) · P. vulgare (Golden Buttons)
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Further Reading
- Flora of the U.S.S.R. [Springfield, Va.: Israel Program for Scientific Translations; 1968- url p. 139.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8844599
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15188534
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:240832-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3124207
