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Photo: Arne Ader

Translation: Liis

The habitats of ox-eye daisies are everywhere, in fields as well as meadows. The composite flowerhead with yellow centre and white ray florets is strikingly beautiful. In addition the ox-eye daisy flowers for a very long time, beginning in June and ending with September, but sometimes a bunch of ox-eye daisies can still be picked on a fallow field in October.

 

The flowerhead („flower“) of the ox-eye daisy resembles that of the corn chamomile (Anthemis arvensis) but is nearly twice as large. Once a common field weed, the corn chamomile has become so rare that even many botanists have not come across it growing in nature.