Leucanthemum vulgareLam.

oxeye daisy

WFO wfo-0000036932 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Leucanthemum vulgare, photographed by webohms
fig. a webohms, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205606942
Leucanthemum vulgare, photographed by Maria
fig. b Maria, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205988056
Leucanthemum vulgare, photographed by Kalvin Chan
fig. c Kalvin Chan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205339594
Leucanthemum vulgare, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. d Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205579412
Leucanthemum vulgare, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. e Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205256258
Leucanthemum vulgare, photographed by webohms
fig. f webohms, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204988414
Leucanthemum vulgare, photographed by Alec McClay
fig. g Alec McClay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205245961
Leucanthemum vulgare, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. h Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205251106

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Flowering n = 12,649 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 12,649 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 31 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bellis major Garsault
  • Chamaemelum leucanthemum (L.) E.H.L.Krause
  • Chrysanthemum dentatum Gilib.
  • Chrysanthemum lanceolatum Vest
  • Chrysanthemum lanceolatum Pers.
  • Chrysanthemum leucanthemum L.
  • Chrysanthemum leucanthemum f. leucanthemum
  • Chrysanthemum leucanthemum subsp. lanceolatum (DC.) E.Mayer
  • Chrysanthemum leucanthemum subsp. leucanthemum
  • Chrysanthemum leucanthemum var. leucanthemum
  • Chrysanthemum leucanthemum var. pinnatifidum Lecoq & Lamotte
  • Chrysanthemum montanum Willd.
  • Chrysanthemum montanum var. heterophyllum (Willd.) Koch
  • Chrysanthemum pratense Salisb.
  • Chrysanthemum sylvestre Willd.
  • Chrysanthemum vulgare (Lam.) Gaterau
  • Chrysanthemum vulgare var. vulgare
  • Leucanthemum atratum var. heterophyllum (Willd.) Rouy
  • Leucanthemum lanceolatum DC.
  • Leucanthemum pallens subsp. parviceps (Briq. & Cavill.) Favarger
  • Leucanthemum praecox (Horvatić) Villard
  • Leucanthemum praecox var. autumnale (Saint-Amans) Villard
  • Leucanthemum praecox var. rhodopaeum Kuzmanov & Kestenova
  • Leucanthemum vulgare subsp. heterophyllum (Willd.) Soó

and 7 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.