Botanical Name: Chrysanthemum maximum (Leucanthemum maximum)
Common Name: Shasta daisy
Type of Plant: perennial
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape clumping, spreading plant with coarse leathery foliage and large daisy-like flowers
Height 2' - 4'
Spread 2' - 4'
Growth Rate rapid
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun to partial shade in hot, inland valleys
Soil prefers a light, fast-draining soil
Hardiness hardy: all zones
 
Morphology:
Leaves spatulate to lanceolate, to 1' long, with long winged petiole on lower leaves, becoming sessile in upper leaves
Flowers head, about 2" - 4" across, white ray flowers, yellow disk flowers
Fruit head of small woody capsules
 
Propagation:
division, seed
 
Usage:
excellent cut flowers, good in borders, perennial beds, cottage gardens
 
Landscape Care:
Watering needs regular watering, especially during bloom
Fertilizing balanced, liquid fertilizer, once in spring and once in summer
Pruning cut old flowers to prolong bloom
Pests/Diseases snails and slugs, root gall, nematodes, aphids
Special Conditions/Other divide clumps every 2 to 3 years
 
Origin: Pyrenees Moutains, Spain
Family: Compositae

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