English Daisy

Flowers are appearing in Olympia park lawns! We think this weed is English Daisy—aka Lawn Daisy—Bellis perennis. Daisies, however, are difficult to identify. This common European weed is found in lawns and roadsides in low elevations of western Washington. The plant is grown commercially and escaped in much of the American West and Northeast. Erika and I found this daisy in a park lawn in Olympia on 12 February 2020,