Chrysanthemum L.

Daisy (en), Chrysanthème (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae

Characteristics

Heads radiate or seldom discoid, the rays pistillate and fertile, white or sometimes yellow or anthocyanic; invol bracts ± imbricate in 2–4 series, dry, at least the margins and tips scarious or hyaline, the midrib sometimes greenish; receptacle flat or convex, naked; disk-fls tubular and perfect, the cor with (4)5 lobes; style-branches flattened, truncate, penicillate; achenes subterete or angular, 5–10-ribbed, or those of the rays with 2–3 wing-angles; pappus a short crown, or none; herbs or seldom shrubs with alternate, entire or toothed to occasionally pinnatifid lvs and hemispheric or depressed-hemispheric heads. 100, N. Hemisphere, espec. Old World.
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Annual herbs. Lvs simple, entire to 1-3-pinnatisect, alternate. Capitula few in corymbs, or often solitary, terminal, pedunculate; involucral bracts in 2-4 rows, with membranous margins. Receptacle convex; scales 0. Outer florets ♀, ligulate, yellow, cream, or white, sometimes reddish toward base; inner florets ☿, tubular and 2-winged. Achenes dimorphic: those of ray florets 2-3-angled with angles often winged; those of disc florets terete in section or somewhat angled, ribbed, sometimes with inner and outer ribs slightly winged, sometimes with small glandular hairs; pappus 0.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.5 - 1.0
Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-10

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Wound (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or divisions.
Mode cuttings divisions
Germination duration (days) 10 - 18
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 21
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -