Stats

Lifespan: Annual
Size: Medium
Diet: Photosynthetic
Biome: Mediterranean shrubland
Range: Mediterranean
Movement: Sessile
Breeding: Seeds
Defense: Toxins
Status: Common

About

Garland daisy is a Mediterranean annual prized in Asian cuisines as shungiku (chrysanthemum greens), with edible leaves harvested long before the plant's cheerful yellow-and-white daisy flowers appear. It naturalises readily in disturbed ground and can bloom prolifically in a single season.

Life cycle

1.
seed
A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2.
sprout
A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3.
sapling
A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4.
mature
Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Glebionis
Species: Glebionis coronaria