Thursday, September 4, 2014

Bellis perennis

Bellis perennis
English daisy
Pâquerette


Composite flowers, each with a central cluster of disc flowers and an outer ring of ray flowers 
Rosettes of small spatulate leaves
Chaucer called it 'eye of the day"
Bellis in Latin means pretty; perennis means everlasting in reference to long period of blooming

In Situ, Lacoste valley, 4.08.13
Leaf rosette 4.08.13
Fall Blossoms in Situ at Fort de Buoux 10.11.14

Blossoms 4.08.13

 

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