Seasonal Wild Flowers

Seaside Daisy

Erigeron glaucus

Asteraceae

May to August

It is found mainly in the South and the Southwest, but is

also locally common in parts of East Anglia and the

Northwest. It is scattered elsewhere.

See the BSBI distribution map for Seaside Daisy

It is a neophyte, introduced from the USA in the early19th

century, and widely grown in gardens.

It has been recognised as a naturalised escape on the

south coast since the 1940s, where it is on the increase.

The escape grows on sea-cliffs, banks, shingle, walls and

rocky places.

Seaside Daisy is a low growing, colony-forming, perennial

herb, growing up to 50cm.

The flowers are pale purple with yellow centres and are up

to 4cm.

En masse the flowers form a carpet of pale purple.

The leaves are green slightly fleshy and concave.

The flowers are very attractive to insects.

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Seaside Daisy on rough ground, Isle of Portland, Dorset

Flowers

Flower with some inner florets open

Leaves

With Burnet moth

With Painted Lady

With bee