Alpine Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemopsis alpina)
Description:
Description: Small, tufted, basal plant with numerous ascending flowering stems, each arising from a ground rosette of oblong or lanceolate leaves that are pinnatisect or divided into 2-4 parts, depending on the subspecies (from oblong palmate-toothed to palmate-lobed form); they are slightly cushion-convex. Stem leaves are alternate, short and entire. At the top of the flowering stem there is one capitulum, 2-4 cm wide, with a flat inflorescence enveloped by numerous overlapping involucre bracts. The flat inflorescence consists of yellow tubular flowers; outer ligulate flowers, which are white or occasionally pink, number from 15 to 30, 8-12 mm long, with small teeth at the tip.
There are a few subspecies.
Size: 5-15 cm
Flowering period: July - August
Ecology and distribution: scree of lower slopes, moraines, stabilised screes, rocks, cliffs and dry grassy pastures, on siliceous ground, from 1800 to 3900 m high.
Very common in the Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines and Carpathians, on Corsica and in the mountains of the central-western Balkan peninsula.
Description contributed by user malenka.
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| jojoj13. 01. 2016 21:57:29 |
Not every flower that grows in the Alps has the adjective "alpine". Could it be only poetic inspiration?
There is no Slovenian botanical name "alpine oxeye daisy". It might be used somewhere at a local level.
And also more broadly in the Alpine and pan-European area, Leucanthemum alpestre or something similar does not exist.
In the Alps, there is indeed a plant quite similar to the oxeye daisy, but it is not the oxeye daisy Leucanthemopsis alpina (L.) Heywood, which does not grow in SLO. It is also considerably lower than our oxeye daisies, the height of daisies (5-15 cm).
Yes, with oxeye daisies there is a problem. Even the profession (in the whole European area) is not yet definitively united and is still coordinating and taxonomically rearranging. In any case, this will not have an impact on Slovenian names. The Latin (taxa) will of course be a bit different, what is now a recognized (ACCEPTED) species, may later be only a synonym or included in another taxon.
For determining Slovenian oxeye daisies, it is often necessary to look under a magnifying glass. Literally! Namely, the presence of pappus on the achenes (fruits) of those disk (tubular flowers) and those ray flowers. They can be the same or different.
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| jojoj13. 01. 2016 21:58:11 |
In SLO, there should be 7 oxeye daisies:
Common, meadow, pale, dark, Kamnik, heterophyllous and Liburnian.
Except for the first two, the others are relatively rare and locally limited.
With the common and meadow ones, especially due to the uncontrolled use of the internet, there is considerable confusion and mixing, which is further increased by the early oxeye daisy. To fill the measure, a printing error also crept into Mala flora Slovenije and named both with the common oxeye daisy:
common oxeye daisy - L. ircutianum (Turcz.) DC and
meadow oxeye daisy - L. vulgare Lamarck, which was initially named L. praecox Horvatić (early) which is now only a synonym.
Probably for now with oxeye daisies we act most wisely if we say only: oxeye daisy – Leucanthemum sp.
For those who use foreign illustrated handbooks (originals or translations), just the information that in the European area 21 species of oxeye daisies thrive (accepted plus countless synonyms and subspecies), do not confuse them with Slovenian ones.
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| Otroci so naš zaklad3. 05. 2016 18:32:00 |
I'm interested in >>INFORMATION<< ABOUT THIS FLOWER!!! 
Not something completely different. E.g. characteristics, use, appearance,...
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| velkavrh9. 09. 2018 09:26:12 |
By chance I came across a tour report on Ankogel, where the photo author named it Haller's oxeye daisy - Leucanthemum atratum subs. halleri. That is the real oxeye daisy and does not grow with us. I have Hoppe's handbook Alpine Flowers where alpine oxeye daisy (Slovenian translation - translator Milan Lovka) Leucanthemopsis alpina. As I understand and according to his explanation, it is not an oxeye daisy, but a similar mountain flower that does not grow with us. The flower is described as low - 5-15 cm, flower like typical daisy head up to 4 cm wide, leaves broadly ovate in outline but almost palmately divided. Stem leaves entire.
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| malenka2. 09. 2020 11:38:14 |
Alpska ivanjščica is a Slovenized term for the species Leucanthemopsis alpina (Leucanthemum alpinum is a synonym), I think we can keep this name as it does not overlap with any species growing locally.
The two pictures above show some other oxeye daisy species, by no means alpine, closer to the common oxeye daisy which is common in lowlands. I don't understand what a music video is doing here. If this is a forum about mountain flowers, I would expect only some recording of swaying alpine flowers in the wind, in this case alpine oxeye daisies.
I will contribute some pictures of these oxeye daisies.
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| Tadej3. 09. 2020 21:23:53 |
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