Plants : AsteraceaeFerns and Flowering Plants

Bellis perennis L.

Daisy

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Bellis perennis

Description: An extremely common and very familiar little plant with a rosette of leaves pressed against the soil surface and a single flower-head carried on a stalk about two or three inches high.

It grows in short turf in a wide variety of situtations including lawns, golf-courses, playing-fields, pastures and roadside banks, or as a weed of arable fields and garden borders.

All names: Bellis perennis L.

Distribution Map from NBN: Bellis perennis at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Bellis perennis at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

 Hackney, P., 2026. Bellis perennis. L.. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland.
https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=4445. Accessed on 2026-11-02.