Plant Gardens 101

Daisy family
Compositae
Gay-lar’di-a. Fourteen species of showy North American herbs, some very popular flower garden plants from the w. U.S.

Description
Leafy, erect, branching herbs with alternate or basal leaves that are more or less dotted. Flowerheads extremely handsome, the rays 3-toothed or almost fringed, yellow, orange, orange-red, or white, the head appearing fringed. Disk flowers purple.

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Daisy family
Compositae
Bel’lis. A genus of 5 European herbs, one cultivated for centuries as the true daisy.

Description
Leaves mostly basal, forming a tuft. Flowerheads solitary, on naked stalks, their ray flowers typically white or pink, the center of disk flowers yellow.

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