Madeira marguerite
Argyranthemum pinnatifidum
Family · Asteraceae · Harmless
The white daisy growing on Madeiran escarpments and levada edges, with fleshy cut leaves and heads of white rays around a yellow disc. It flowers nearly all year.
Walls and rocks · Scrubland · Uplands · Dunes and sand
Also known asMadeiran marguerite
How to tell it
A subshrub with a woody base, much branched, to a metre. Fleshy leaves divided into broad rounded segments, pale green or bluish. Heads three to five centimetres, with white rays and a yellow disc, solitary at the end of long stalks. Range: endemic to Madeira.
What it is confused with
No dangerous lookalikes known in the Iberian Peninsula.
What it is for
No use
It is the origin of many of the garden marguerites sold in Europe, which descend from crosses of Macaronesian Argyranthemum.
Where it occurs
Each square is an area with recorded observations of this plant. The lighter background is the set of areas where any of the entries has been observed, and serves as a reference. Note what this is not: it is not where the plant lives, it is where people record it, so trails and towns always look fuller than the mountains. Data from GBIF.
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