Family: composites (Asteraceae)
Flowering time: March–November
Size: 5–15 cm
Habitat: lawns, greens, along paths
Toothed spatulate basal leaves of the common daisy (Bellis perennis) are up to 15 mm wide. They form an evergreen leaf rosette from which a vertical, densely hairy stem rises. The leafless stalk bears only one head. This head is 10 to 30 mm wide and is formed by yellow tubular flowers surrounded by white ligulate flowers. Below the head there is another set of about 5 mm long, slender green involucral leaves.
The common daisy grows on moderately rich, moderately acidic, fresh soils with a medium amount of humus in sunny, moderately warm sites. In Slovenia it is a widely distributed and common species.
The common daisy is a well-known medicinal plant that people have long used to relieve pain and cramps and to ease problems with irregular and painful menstruation, with the lungs, with the kidneys, liver and the digestive tract.
