BBC Countryfile Magazine

OX-EYE DAISY

The largest native member of the daisy family, the ox-eye daisy () – a traditional countryside stalwart – populates roadside verges, meadows and waste ground. With its tall stems of bright white, sun-centred daisy-like flowers (each flowerhead being several times the), the ox-eye daisy is well designed to catch the attention of both pollinators and humans, and indeed the light of sun and moon.

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