The evolution of Shasta daisies, Leucanthemum, began with the American pioneer of plant breeding, Luther Burbank. Said to have introduced about 800 different new plant varieties, including the ...

Plus, tips and tricks for growing this popular flower at home. Daisies bring a burst of cheer to the world with their happy, ...

"Daisy" is sometimes used as shorthand for the admittedly much harder-to-say Asteraceae family, which is composed of over 23,600 species of plants, making it one of the largest flora families on ...

Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18th century scientist Carl Linnaeus for identifying species are not enough. In a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, ...

but there is a group of daisies in the area that have been difficult for botanists to identify. The plants are "cryptic," they look identical, with similar leaves and flowers, and have the same ...

Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18th century scientist Carl Linnaeus for identifying species are not enough. Completely new species of daisies have been ...