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Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.

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Lam.
Lam.
1779
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Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
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Leucanthemum vulgare

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vulgare

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Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.

Scarcely scented, perennial herb. Stems erect, up to c. 1 m tall, usually sparsely to densely villous below and glabrous above, rarely hairy or glabrous above and below, striate, simple or branched at base or sometimes above, rooting toward base. Basal and lower cauline lvs long-petiolate, elliptic, obovate or spathulate, obtuse at apex, cuneate, coarsely 1-2-serrate, crenate, or shallowly 1-(2)-pinnatifid, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely hairy on petiole and midrib, very rarely moderately hairy, up to 12-(18) × 2-(4) cm; cauline lvs similar to basal but above becoming smaller, apetiolate, narrow-oblong, amplexicaul, with few distant teeth or sometimes entire, and often auriculate at base. Involucral bracts 3-8 mm long, glabrous; margins and apex brown, membranous; inner bracts with extended, broad, apical flap. Capitula solitary or few in corymbs, (25)-30-60-(65) mm diam.; ray florets (9)-18-33; ligules white; disc florets numerous, yellow. Achenes c. 2.5 mm long, dark brown with pale ribs; achenes of disc florets mostly ± terete, with 10 ± equal ribs, and corona 0; achenes of ray florets similar to those of disc florets, but sometimes flattened with lateral ribs somewhat extended, 3 ribs on outer surface and 5 ribs on inner surface, rarely achene 3-angled, sometimes with irregular corona c. 0.3 mm long.

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Chrysanthemum leucanthemum L.
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.

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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
France
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
New Zealand
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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34b2ad17-5495-4da6-a106-7b11af3630fc
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
4 September 2017
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