Daisy - Bellis perennis
Low hairy plant with leaves in a basal rosette. Flowerheads with a yellow disc and numerous narrow white rays. 15 to 30 mm solitary on long slender stalks, the rays often tipped with red or flushed with purplish red beneath.
Short grassy habitats, lawns etc.
Flowers nearly all year round.
Perennial.
Very common throughout Britain.
Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 596 of the 617 tetrads.
HAPeacock
Gilroes Cemetery
24 April 2012
David Nicholls
Groby Pool
10 May 2008
David Nicholls
Groby Pool
10 May 2008 Harecroft Crescent Sapcote SP 4901 9371 (taken 2.3.2009).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
02 March 2009
Barbara Cooper
Grantham canal
19 May 2013
Mike Higgott
Anstey, Link Road Playing Fields
22 March 2023
 Harecroft Crescent Sapcote SP 4901 9371 (taken 2.3.2009).JPG)
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Species profile
- Common names
- Daisy
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Asterales
- Family:
- Asteraceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 619
- First record:
- 21/09/1998 (Anthony Fletcher)
- Last record:
- 21/04/2024 (axon, kaye)
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David Nicholls
Ratby church
04 January 2023 Leicester Road Sapcote SP 4929 9342 (taken 9.4.2007).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
09 April 2007 Leicester Road Sapcote SP 4929 9342 (taken 15.4.2009).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
15 April 2009
Ron.stevens
Broughton Astley
03 July 2011
HAPeacock
Gilroes Cemetery
24 April 2012
David Nicholls
Abbey Park, Leicester
06 May 2011
 Leicester Road Sapcote SP 4929 9342 (taken 9.4.2007).JPG)
 Leicester Road Sapcote SP 4929 9342 (taken 15.4.2009).JPG)
Liriomyza pusilla
The larvae of the Agromyzid fly Liriomyza pusilla create irregular but linear mines on the upper surface leaves of Daisy (Bellis perennis). The mine winds across the leaf, often crossing over itself. Small leaves may have a secondary blotch at the end of the mine. Frass, when visible, is in short pearl-like strings. Pupation takes place outside the mine.