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Ox-eye or Dog Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)

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This large daisy, with flowers up to 5cm in diameter, grows on grassy banks, roadsides and meadows. It flowers mainly from June to August but protected within a railway cutting this plant was still flowering on 10th October. In former times the plant was boiled and the extract used to cure many illnesses including chest and liver complaints and sore eyes.

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26th Jul 2012

Subjects:
Biology, Science

Key Stages:
Foundation, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 4+

Geocode: Jersey Channel Islands

Keywords:
Oxeye daisy plant

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