Bellis perennis L., Asteraceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Threat only at high elevations?  yes

Common name(s): [more details]

English: daisy, English daisy, lawn daisy

French: pâquerette

Spanish: vellorita

Habit:  herb

Description:  "Fibrous-rooted perennial herbs, ± pubescent with spreading hairs.  Leaves elliptic to obovate, 3-8 cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide, margins entire, denticulate, or serrulate, petioles 1-4 cm long.  Heads solitary on scapes 5-15 (-20) cm long; involucral bracts usually ca. 13, 4-6 mm long; ray florets numerous, rays white, ca. 1 cm long; disk corollas yellow" (Wagner et al., 1999; p. 267).

Habitat/ecology:  In Hawai‘i, "sparingly naturalized in high elevation, mesic areas" (Wagner et al., 1999; p. 267). In New Zealand, "mostly in lawns and pastures especially in wetter areas, also waste places, forest margins and clearings, stream banks, seepages, cultivated land, dunes and tussock grassland" (Webb et al., 1988; p. 182).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  Europe (Wagner et al., 1999; p. 267).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	Hawai‘i (Big) Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Wagner, Warren L./Herbst, Derral R./Sohmer, S. H. (1999) (p. 267) Perhaps naturalized.
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	Kaua‘i Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Wagner, Warren L./Herbst, Derral R./Sohmer, S. H. (1999) (p. 267) St. John et al. 13781 (BISH) Sparingly naturalized, high elevations.

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Chile (continental) Chile	Chile (Republic of)		Holm, Leroy/Pancho, Juan V./Herberger, James P./Plucknett, Donald L. (1979) (p. 44)
New Zealand New Zealand	New Zealand (country)	introduced invasive	Webb, C. J./Sykes, W. R./Garnock-Jones, P. J. (1988) (p. 182)

Comments:  Reported as possibly an invasive plant in the Hawaiian Islands per Staples et al., 2000.

Additional information:  Additional online information about Bellis perennis is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Taxonomic information about Bellis perennis may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Holm, Leroy/Pancho, Juan V./Herberger, James P./Plucknett, Donald L. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 391 pp.

Staples, George W./Herbst, Derral/Imada, Clyde T. 2000. Survey of invasive or potentially invasive cultivated plants in Hawai‘i. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers No. 65. 35 pp.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2007. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Nat. Res. Cons. Serv. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Wagner, Warren L./Herbst, Derral R./Sohmer, S. H. 1999. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. Revised edition. Bernice P. Bishop Museum special publication. University of Hawai‘i Press/Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 1919 pp. (two volumes).

Webb, C. J./Sykes, W. R./Garnock-Jones, P. J. 1988. Flora of New Zealand, Volume IV: Naturalised pteridophytes, gymnosperms, dicotyledons. Botany Division, DSIR, Christchurch. 1365 pp.