9341.080 Leucanthemum Mill.

Perennial herbs; stems erect or procumbent, usually branched; roots red-tipped. Leaves alternate, entire to pinnate. Capitula solitary, rarely in lax corymbs, terminal, radiate, heterogamous; phyllaries imbricate, 2–3-seriate; receptacle convex or flat. Ray florets white or pink, less often the outer florets tubular, rayless and yellow; disc florets yellow; corolla tube spongy and swollen in fruit, especially beneath, with 5 lobes. Fruit achenes, oblong-cylindrical, usually 10-ribbed, with mucilaginous cells and secretory canals between the ribs; pappus a crown or an adaxial auricle, sometimes rudimentary or absent.

Worldwide: 33 species in Europe (mainly mountainous areas) and SW Asia

Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa.