Alternate name: Lawndaisy
Family: Asteraceae, Aster view all from this family
Description Short, slender, leafless stalks, each bearing one flower head with many narrow white or pinkish rays and yellow disk flowers, grow from a basal rosette of leaves.
Flowers: heads about 1" (2.5 cm) wide, with bracts the same length.
Leaves: to 1 1/2" (3.8 cm) long, the blade elliptic or round and with small teeth on edges, tapered at base to a broad petiole as long or longer.
Fruit: seed-like, no hairs or scales at tip.
Height: 2-8" (5-20 cm).
Habitat Lawns, fields, and roadsides.
Range Introduced from Europe and found scattered throughout Canada and the northern United States; in the West south to California, in the East to North Carolina and Tennessee.
Discussion It may be with this plant that the word "daisy" originated. It means "day's eye" and comes from Anglo-Saxon "daeges ege." English Daisy folds up its rays at night and opens them again at dawn - the "eye of the day." This pretty flower is a common weed in lawns, especially in cool moist regions. A "double" form is planted as an ornamental.
