Ox-eye
Daisies
Shoreham
Airport East
NB.
Mentions of Scentless Mayweed
may actually be Sea Mayweed
on these pages, 2014
and before.
Than love I most these floures
white and rede, Soch that men callen daisies in our town; To hem I have
so great affection, As I said erst, when comen is the May, That in my bedde
there daweth me no day That I am up and walking in the mede, To seene this
flour ayenst the Sunne sprede, Whan it up riseth early by the morrow. That
blissful sight softeneth all my sorrow, So glad am I, whan that I have
the presence Of it, to done it all reverence,
14
June 2023
Ox-eye
Daisies
Shoreham
Airport East
Ox-eye
Daisies
Old
Shoreham
9 June 2022
Mayweed
Eastern
approaches to Monks Farm
6 June 2022
Tufted
Vetch with Ox-eye
Daisies
Airport
Riverbank
Mayweed
Tripleurospermum
inodorum
- Scentless Mayweed
Query
over correct species? Chamomile?
Shoreham
Airport Towpath
The
best way to tell the difference is to slice through the boss of yellow
florets (the receptacle) in the centre of the flower with your thumbnail;
Scented
Mayweed has a definitely hollow receptacle
and Scentless Mayweed
has a more or less solid receptacle.
Mayweeds
Similar
Species
Scented
Mayweed, Matricaria
chamomilla, and
Chamomiles,
Anthemis
and Chamaemelum nobile.
Corn
Chamomile, Anthemis arvensis, Stinking Chamomile Anthemis
cotula, and Austrian Chamomile, Cota austriaca ( = Anthemis).
The following are the main species normally found in the British Isles:
Tripleurospermum
inodorm (Scentless Mayweed)
Tripleurospermum
maritimum (Sea Mayweed)
Matricaria
chamomilla (Scented Mayweed)
Matricaria
discoidea (Pineappleweed)
Chamaemelum
nobile ('true' chamomile)
(Chamaemelum
mixtum is a scarce alien)
Anthemis
cotula (Stinking Chamomile)
Anthemis
arvensis (Corn Chamomile)
Anthemis
tinctoria (Yellow Chamomile)
Anthemis
punctata (Sicilian Chamomile)
Anthemis
austriaca (Austrian Chamomile)
11 September 2021
Feverfew
St.
Mary de Haura Churchyard
Late August 2021
Mayweed with one Ox-eye Daisy
29 August 2021
Sea Aster
14 June 2021
Ox-eye Daisies
ID by Matt Smith on UK Bees, Wasps and Ants facebook
9 June 2020
Ox-eye
Daisies
Downs
Link Path, south of the Cement Works (dis)
29 January 2020
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In Buckingham Park, Shoreham, Common Daisies were flowering.
4 January 2020
Common
Daisy
Adur
Recreation Ground
Pineapple
Weed
Mill
Hill (* Lower Car Park)
| 18
June 2018
Pineapple Weed, Matricaria discoidea, was a surprise discovery on a grass verge at the far western end of Middle Road, Shoreham. It looks like a daisy without petals. |
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17 June 2018
Ox-eye
Daisies, Scented Mayweeds
Cyclepath
at Old Shoreham
13 June 2018
Chamomile
or (Scented?) Mayweed, Corn Marigold, Cornflower
Cyclepath
at Old Shoreham
Have
these flowers arrived with planted wild seed?
7 June 2018
Seaside Daisy
Chamomile or (Scented?) Mayweed
Ox-eye Daisies
Common Daisy, Ox-eye Daisy, Mayweed
Top:
Chamomile or (Scented?) Mayweed Bottom:
Ox-eye Daisies
Old
Shoreham Cyclepath
Ox-eye Daisy
1 June 2018
Ox-eye
Daisies
Mill
Hill Car Park (new seeded or planted additions)
17
October 2017
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Sea
Mayweed
Southwick
Beach
6 October 2017
Mayweed
and one large flower of Ox-eye Daisy
at
Old
Shoreham (on
the verges where Mackley are building a higher cyclepath just north of
the Tollbridge).
The
Mayweed
was not prostrate but a row of about ten large patches as an upright plant.
8 August 2017
Invasive
plant on Silver Sands
Canadian
Fleabane, Conyza
canadensis which is unattractive and
probably frequent on waste land
Plant
growing on a sandy bit, dry estuarine margins.
The first ever wild record on these web pages of the Pineapple
Weed, Matricaria
discoidea.
Anchor
Bottom
6 July 2017
Mexican
Fleabane, Erigeron
karvinskianus
Upper
Beeding
2 July 2017
Mayweed
A
patch of Mayweed
on
the edge of an arable field, near Coombes
This
was an upright straggly plant
29
June 2017
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Southwick Beach |
23 June 2017
Mayweed
A
patch of Mayweed
by
the Widewater Cyclepath, Lancing Beach
This
was an upright straggly plant supported in part being next to a wooden
wall next to the path.
Sea Mayweed (Tripleurospermum maritimum ssp. maritimum) and Scentless Mayweed (Tripleurospermum maritimum ssp. inodorum) are a difficult pair for botanists – they were formerly regarded as separate species, but more recent research views them as the same species or as subspecies. The type species Sea Mayweed is a biennial or perennial while Scentless Mayweed is a biennial at most. Other differences between the two are Sea Mayweed’s straggly branches and the way its basal leaves lie partly on the ground.
11 June 2017
Mayweed
A
patch of Mayweed
by
the tidal River Adur
towpath near Erringham Gap
This
was an upright straggly plant intertwined with other vegetation on an area
of grass path next to a hay meadow.
Ox-eye
Daisies
Downs
Link Cyclepath: Erringham
Gap - Cement Works
| 21
May 2017
Daisy Bee Possibly Lasioglosum calceatum which is named the Common Furrow Bee PS:
ID may be incorrect as the bees are meant to emerge in July.
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4 September 2016
Sea
Mayweed (confirmed by another opinion)
This
is a prostrate straggly plant on the sheltered shingle of Shoreham
Beach was not supported by any other vegetation.
Common Daisies on Mill Hill
| 26
March 2016
Common Daisies in St. Mary de Haura churchyard were noticed to be particularly large with plenty of their rounded leaves in the flower beds and less leaf on the grass between the gravestones. |
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10
September 2015
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Sea Mayweed from Southwick Beach. I have not mastered identifying the Mayweeds.
Tripleurospermum
inodorum - Scentless Mayweed
Tripleurospermum
maritimum - Sea Mayweed
5 August
2014
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Mayweed
4-
5 July 2014
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April - May 2014
Green-veined White
April - May 2014
Common Daisies
17
July 2009
At
this time of the year, Scentless Mayweed
is the dominant daisy on the Coastal-Downs Link
Cyclepath to Upper Beeding, but occasional clumps of flowering
Ox-eye
Daisies remain.
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29
June 2009
Yarrow
was seen in flower on road sides and verges.
9 May
2009
Ox-eye
Daisies were seen in flower on the outskirts
of Shoreham for the first time this year on the verges of the Coastal
Link Cyclepath south of the Toll Bridge,
Old Shoreham.
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17
August 2007
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There
were large expanses of the white flower of
Yarrow in flower at the southern end of
Adur Recreation Ground.
