April Gift Flower: Daisies
/These simple but happy flowers don't usually bloom in Missouri in April so I waited to get some good pictures.
When I first started learning to identify Missouri wildflowers, this was the second easiest plant to identify. Ox-eye daisies grow from a ground-hugging green wreath of a start, the leaves frilly around the edges. When they are ready to bloom, the stems seem to shoot up overnight.
When finished blooming, the stems dry and the little ground-hugging wreath returns.
There are a number of other daisy-like varieties on the market. Shasta daisies are the domesticated version of these wild cousins but to me, Ox-eye daisies will always be what I think of when someone says daisy.
In the Victorian "language of flowers," these cheerful white flowers represent beauty and innocence.
Charlotte