Daisy
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Daisy
Wildflower
A small, common flower often found growing in lawns.
How to identify:
Look for a yellow centre surrounded by many thin, white petals. The flower grows on a single, leafless stalk.
💡 Fun Facts
- Daisies get their name from "day's eye" because their petals close up at night and open again in the morning, just like an eye.
- You can make a daisy chain by carefully making a small slit in the stalk of one daisy with your nail and threading another through it.
- They are very tough plants and can survive being trodden on or mown.
📅 Through the Year
- Flowering:March to October
Name Story
Bellis perennis
means “The flower that lasts all year round”
likely meaningScholars aren't sure what Bellis means — perhaps 'pretty', perhaps an old word for a wound-healing herb — so we lead on perennis, 'all year round', which is certain.
What does its name mean?
- Bellis — an old name — perhaps 'pretty', perhaps an old wound-herb wordLatin
- perennis — lasting all year, perennialLatinDecode this word →
On a British lawn you can spot a daisy in flower in almost every month of the year — truly an all-year-round plant. Its English name is lovely too: 'daisy' comes from 'day's eye', because it shuts at dusk and opens again at dawn.