Leucanthemella serotina, the giant daisy or autumn ox-eye, is a vigorous, upright perennial up to about 1.5 m tall, grown for its white daisy flowers that appear through autumn. It is a good pollinator plant and has the RHS Award of Garden Merit.
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season, especially in dry spells.
Soil
Fertile, moist, well-drained garden soil.
Temperature
Hardy in cold winters; suited to temperate climates, roughly -20 to 30 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
EC. & SE. Europe to Ukraine
Climate
temperate
About
Leucanthemella serotina, called the autumn ox-eye, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Leucanthemella, native to Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Ukraine, and introduced to Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota and New York in the United States, Ontario and Québec in Canada, and France, Germany, Great Britain, and Switzerland. It is a vigorous, erect perennial growing to 1.5 m (5 ft) tall, bearing flowerheads with white ray florets and greenish-yellow centres, throughout autumn. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit, and is also considered by them to be a good plant to attract pollinators.
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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.