Leucanthemum heterophyllum
# Leucanthemum heterophyllum

Leucanthemum heterophyllum is a species of flowering plant in the aster family

## Description

Leucanthemum heterophyllum can reach a height of 30–80 centimetres (12–31 in). This plant is perennial, glabrous or hairy. The stem is erect and robust, with a rosette of large basal leaves, petiolate, oblong, serrulate on the edges. It produces solitary white many-stellate flowers. The central disk flowers are tubular, hermaphrodite, yellow. They bloom from June to September.

## Distribution

This plant is native to the southern Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula and the Alps up to the Balkans and Caucasus.

## Habitat

This species lives in grasslands, meadows, shrubs, preferably on calcareous soils, at elevation of 1,000–2,200 metres (3,300–7,200 ft) above sea level.

