Leucanthemum heterophyllum


Leucanthemum heterophyllum is a species of flowering plant in the aster family.

Description

Leucanthemum heterophyllum can reach a height of. This plant is perennial, glabrous or hairy. The stem is erect and robust, with a rosette of large basal leaves, petiolate, oblong, serrulate on the edges. It produces solitary white many-stellate flowers. The central disk flowers are tubular, hermaphrodite, yellow. They bloom from June to September.

Distribution

This plant is native to the southern Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula and the Alps up to the Balkans and Caucasus.

Habitat

This species lives in grasslands, meadows, shrubs, preferably on calcareous soils, at elevation of above sea level.