| Description | Snow cap Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum) A smaller compact Shasta Daisy. Snowcap reaches 18 by 16 inches with large white flowers. Being compact and shorter will help it remain upright during heavy winds and rains. In the Leucanthemum genus. |
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| Pronunciation | (lew-KANTH-ih-mum)(soo-PER-bum) |
| Plant Type | Perennials Hardy, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | 5-9 |
| Sunlight | full, mostly sunny, some shade |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | best in well drained soils, will not survive wet winter soils |
| Flowers | white petals (petals actually are ray flowers) with yellow center, blooms the end of June to mid to end of July for me |
| Fruit | achene |
| Leaves | simple, green, coarsely-toothed, narrow-elliptic |
| Dimensions | 12-18 by 12 inches (HS) |
| Maintenance | deadheading increases the flowering season, cutting back to 2-3 inches after bloom, if plants start to decline divide every 2-3 years, replanting healthy divisions |
| Propagation | easy by division in the spring or after the plants are cutback, cuttings, |
| Cultivar Origin | Introduced by Alan Bloom of Blooms of Bressingham in the 1980s. |
| Misc Facts | Luther Burbank introduced the first Shasta Daisy hybrid in about 1901. Leucanthemum translates as "white flower" and superbum to its hybrid vigor. AKA as Chrysanthemum maximum and Chrysanthemum x superbum. |
| Notes & Reference | #04-Herbaceous Perennial Plants (Allan Armitage), #40-Herbaceous Ornamental Plants (Steven Stills), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org) |
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