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|accepted_name=Bellis
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 886. 1753
|year=1753
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 378. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Daisy;pâquerette
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Bellis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bellis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin bellus, pretty
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 16, 20, 23
|treatment_page=page 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>[annuals], 5–20 cm (scapiform; rhizomes herbaceous [roots fibrous]). <b>Stems</b> erect, simple, strigose. <b>Leaves</b> basal (mostly) [sometimes cauline, reduced]; alternate; petiolate; blades 1-nerved, obovate-spatulate to rounded, margins crenate-serrate, strigose. <b>Heads</b> radiate, borne singly. <b>Involucres</b> hemispheric, [3–]4–6[–8] × 9–13 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 13–14+ in (1–)2(–3) series 1-nerved, oblong, subequal, herbaceous, margins entire, abaxial faces strigose. <b>Receptacles</b> conic [hemispheric or nearly flat] (± elongating with age), pitted, epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 35–90 (in [1–]3–4 series), pistillate, fertile; corollas abaxially often pink- or purplish-tinged, adaxially white (closing at night). <b>Disc</b> florets 60–80+, bisexual, fertile; corollas pale yellow, tubes much shorter than funnelform [tubular] throats, lobes 5, erect or incurved, deltate; style-branch appendages deltate. <b>Cypselae</b> obconic, compressed, marginally 2-ribbed, eglandular [gland-dotted (sessile)], faces short-strigose [glabrous or ciliate-margined]; pappi 0 [bristles]. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mediterranean basin;Europe;n Africa;Macaronesia;introduced also to temperate areas worldwide.
|discussion=<p>Species 15 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>O. Fiz et al. (2002) showed that <i>Bellis</i> is closely related to Bellium Linnaeus and Bellidiastrum michelii Cassini (syn. <i>Aster</i> bellidiastrum Scopoli). Subtribe Bellidinae (Cassini ex D. Don) Bentham should be expanded to include the latter in a group of scapiform perennials or annuals. Fiz et al. showed also that Crinitaria and Galatella (two segregates of <i>Aster</i> in the broad sense complex) are sister to Bellidinae. Exact relationships of this group to other subtribes of Astereae are still undetermined.</p>
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name=Bellis
|author=Luc Brouillet
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|distribution=North America;Mediterranean basin;Europe;n Africa;Macaronesia;introduced also to temperate areas worldwide.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Bellis
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