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Miniature Daisy

Bellium minutum

Also called Little Mary, Least Daisy

Bellium minutum is a small annual daisy from the Mediterranean region, native to Sicily, the Aegean islands, northwest Turkey and Cyprus, and rarely grown in gardens. It is a low, short-lived plant that is best treated as a dry-soil, sunny annual in mild climates.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry between waterings, as it is adapted to dry Mediterranean conditions.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil, poor to average fertility.
Temperature
10–25 °C; tolerates cool winters but is frost-sensitive.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Sicilia, E. Aegean Is. to NW. Türkiye, Cyprus
Climate
subtropical

About

Bellium minutum also known as the miniature daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Bellium. It is endemic to Sicily, Turkey, Cyprus and the islands in the north western part of the Aegean Sea.

Other Bellium plants

False Daisy · Bellium crassifolium · Bellium nivale · Bellium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bellium minutum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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