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Widespread but scattered and rare casual throughout the UK.

Stace 4:

Glebionis coronaria (L.) Gass. ex Spach (Chrysanthemum coronarium L., Xanthophthalum coronarium (L.) P.D. Sell) - Crown Daisy.

Stems ascending to erect, to 80cm; leaves green, lobed >1/2 way to midrib, often more or less to midrib; capitula 4-8cm across; ligules cream, yellow, or cream and yellow; achenes 3-3.5mm, cylindrical, deeply ridged, the inner with adaxial wing, the marginal with 2 lateral and 1 adaxial wings; (2n=18). Neophyte-casual; waste places and tips, often as grain-alien, not naturalised; very scattered in Britain North to Moray, Isle of Man, County Kilkenny; Europe.

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Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora

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