Eastern western-daisy

Bellis integrifolia Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 131. 1803

Annuals (biennials?), usually fibrous-rooted. Stems usually 1, erect to decumbent-ascending. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline 30–60 × 7–22 mm. Involucres 3.5–6 mm. Ray florets (8–)16–26; corolla laminae white, occasionally drying with bluish midstripe abaxially, (6–)8–17 mm. Disc floret corollas 2.5–3.7 mm. Cypselae (1.4–)1.6–2(–2.2) × 0.9–1.1 mm, faces minutely papillate-pebbly, linear striations barely discernible, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely glochidiate-hairy distally. 2n = 8.

Flowering Apr–Jun(–Jul). Rocky (limestone) banks and ridges, alluvial fields, stream banks and terraces, open juniper woods, glades, roadsides; 50–300 m; Ala., Ga., Ky., Miss., Tenn.

SELECTED REFERENCE

Nesom, G. L. 2005c. Taxonomic review of Astranthium integrifolium (Asteraceae: Astereae). Sida 21: 2015–2021.