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Leucanthemum maximum (Ramond) DC.

Daisy-chrysanthemum, Große Margerite (DE), Max Chrysanthemum, Shasta Daisy

Climate known 54 photographs
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Summary

Leucanthemum maximum, known as max chrysanthemum and Shasta daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the aster family.

Text from Wikipedia, “Leucanthemum maximum”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Leucanthemum

Leucanthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. Species range naturally from Europe through the Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Siberia to the Russian Far East. Some species are known on other continents as introduced species, and some are cultivated as ornamental plants. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Leucanthemum”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
(Ramond) DC.
Native to
France, Spain
Wild records
705 in range· 550 open

At a glance

Warmest month
22°C
Jul, mean day; nights 14 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1028mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Dec 105 mm (CHELSA)
Light
8–38DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (September to January and April to June in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 1028 mm a year, wettest December at 105 mm, driest July at 68 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 8 to 38 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -5.8 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Chrysanthemum burbankii Makino; Chrysanthemum grandiflorum Lapeyr.; Chrysanthemum leucanthemum subsp. maximum (Ramond) P.Fourn.; Chrysanthemum leucanthemum var. maximum (Ramond) Fiori; Chrysanthemum maximum Ramond and 8 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (September to January and April to June in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (745 mm of 1028 mm) takes 8 months, September to January and April to June. Mean temperature moves 14.5 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: March to July and October to December.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1028 mm a year, wettest December at 105 mm, driest July at 68 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1028 mm a year at the habitat, 745 mm of it September to January and April to June. Wettest month December at 105 mm, driest July at 68 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 697 mm to 1725 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 8 to 38 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 8 to 38 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 5, the highest 90th-percentile month 43).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -5.8 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -5.8 °C, the absolute minimum -13.8 °C, about 59 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 30.2 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 0.3 °C in January (across the envelope cells -6.7 °C to 4.2 °C), warmest day 22.0 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -5.8 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 61 to 64% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 6 °C in Jan to 22 °C in Jul; mean night from 0 °C in Jan to 14 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1028 mm of rain a year, most in Dec. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 497 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -13.8 °C and the 99th-percentile day 30.2 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-20°-10°10°20°30°40°frost30.2° 99th-percentile day (undated)-13.8° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200mm rainDLI 8–38RH 61–64 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 497 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C6 / 1–108 / 2–1010 / 5–1313 / 7–1517 / 11–1920 / 15–2322 / 18–2622 / 18–2519 / 15–2215 / 11–1810 / 5–137 / 2–10
Night °C0 / -7–41 / -6–43 / -4–65 / -3–78 / 2–1011 / 6–1414 / 8–1614 / 8–1611 / 5–148 / 2–114 / -3–71 / -6–5
Rain mm93 / 56–17170 / 47–13975 / 51–13787 / 52–16998 / 64–15777 / 49–11968 / 46–9870 / 44–11183 / 51–124101 / 70–169101 / 58–192105 / 66–192
DLI10 / 6–1415 / 11–2023 / 18–2830 / 28–3535 / 33–3838 / 35–4138 / 34–4333 / 30–3726 / 21–3017 / 13–2111 / 7–158 / 5–12
RH %64 / 59–6862 / 58–6561 / 58–6461 / 58–6462 / 59–6461 / 58–6461 / 57–6561 / 57–6561 / 59–6463 / 60–6564 / 60–6864 / 58–69

Each figure is the median across the 497 grid cells holding the 698 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 939:3558 (43.025, -2.075). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -13.8 °C, 1st-percentile night -5.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 30.2 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 497 distinct grid cells holding the 698 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 939:3558 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 43.00_-1.875, lapse-corrected +340 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 856 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeFrance, Spain· introduced: Germany
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker42.948, 0.215 · in the densest population, 336 records (48% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 705 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 550 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 7 km away. 761 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 7 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 705 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Saryu Mae 前 朝琉, some rights reserved (CC BY); no rights reserved · CC0 (5); (c) Sandy Wolkenberg, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Leucanthemum maximum, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Biological effects of the free and embedded metribuzin and tribenuron-methyl herbicides on various cultivated weed species
Tatiana G. Volova, Sergey Baranovsky, Olga Petrovskaya, Anna A. Shumilova (2020) · Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part B
Preliminary GC/MS Study of the Essential Oil Isolated from Chrysanthemum Maximum
Aleksandra Józefczyk, W. Markowski, Marek Mardarowicz, Kazimierz Głowniak (1999) · Pharmaceutical Biology
A caryophyllene derivative from Leucanthemum maximum
Ferdinand Bohlmann, Rolf Bohlmann (1980) · Phytochemistry
Complete plastome of Leucanthemum maximum, the first in genus Leucanthemum
Haimei Chen, Mei Jiang, Liqiang Wang, Jinwen You (2019) · Mitochondrial DNA Part B
Flowers Identification using First-order Feature Extraction and Multi-SVM Classifier
Fakhriyah Prananingrum Pramadi, Christy Atika Sari, Eko Hari Rachmawanto, De Rosal Ignatius Moses Setiadi (2020) · 2020 International Seminar on Application for Technology of Information and Communication (iSemantic)
Cold-induced Antioxidant Enzymes Changes in Leucanthemum maximum`Silver Princess'
Suping Zhou, Roger J. Sauvé, Margaret T. Mmbaga, Chaim Frenkel (2005) · HortScience
Multi-SVM Dalam Identifikasi Bunga Berbasis Ekstraksi Ciri Orde Satu
Wellia Shinta Sari, Christy Atika Sari (2023) · InComTech Jurnal Telekomunikasi dan Komputer
Lodo de esgoto da ete como fonte de nitrogênio na cultura da margarida (leucanthemum maximum) / Sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plant as a source of nitrogen in the culture of daisy (leucanthemum maximum)
Sara Moreno Pereira Lacerda, Joseane Oliveira da Silva, Felizardo Adenilson Rocha, Jacson Tavares de Oliveira (2022) · Brazilian Journal of Development
APHID INFESTATION OF DECORATIVE PERENNIALS
B. Wilkaniec, H. Piekarska-Boniecka (2008) · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
Additions à la flore des plantes vasculaires du pays basque français
Jean Vivant (1954) · Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Leucanthemum 1 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 173 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.