Daisies are beautiful flowers that belong to the Asteraceae family. There are an astonishing 20,000 different types of daisies, each with its own unique characteristics and appearance.
From bright Painted daisies to snow white and happy Shasta daisies, there are so many different types of daisies that can fit any garden or floral arrangement. With their cheerful demeanor and bright colors, there’s no wonder why they’re such a popular flower.
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What Are Some Different Types of Daisies?
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In this guide, we will introduce you to 50 different types of daisies that look great in any garden or bouquet, such as:
- Painted Daisies
- English Daisies
- Shasta Daisies
- Nippon Daisies
- …and dozens more
50 Types of Daisies For Your Garden
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English daisies come in red, white, or pink. They are typically a perennial, but they are biennial (which means they does not produce flowers in their first year) in the southern United States and an annual in the northern United States.
While similar to the common daisy, African daisies are more vibrant. Blooms feature single or multi-colored centers with spoon-shaped petals and come in a wide array of colors, including pink, purple, orange, yellow, and more.
Originating from South Africa, there are multiple cultivators of Gerbera daisies that come in various sizes and colors, including pink, yellow, orange, white, and more. They range in size from two to five inches.
4. Shasta Daisy
A hybrid between the oxeye daisy, English daisy, and Portuguese field daisy, Shasta daisies feature pure white petals radiating from a sunny yellow center. They feature big and bold blooms, ranging in size from two inches to five inches.
Painted daisies grow to two to three feet tall and one to one and a half feet wide. They emit a pleasantly earthy aroma and produce showy, three-inch-wide flowers in a variety of shockingly bright colors, including white, red, pink, and purple.
6. Oxeye Daisy
With beautiful white flowers and yellow centers, Oxeye daisies look beautiful but actually are an invasive species. They can grow up to three feet tall. One plant can produce one to forty flowering stems.
The Michaelmas daisy, also called Aster, is a perennial that comes in a wide array of colors and sizes. Flowers bloom in late summer with petals in varying shades of white, blue, purple, or pink.
Also called Black Eyed Susan, Gloriosa daisies grow up to three feet tall and feature black centers and petals that fade from brown to bright yellow. They are extremely easy to grow and care for and come back reliably year after year.
Prairie daisies feature a plethora of blooms, each with dozens of petals. In fact, each flower has 40 to 100 petals that surround a central disk. This variety of daisy can grow to three feet tall and is quite hardy.
10. Nippon Daisy
Native to central Japan, the Nippon daisy grows on cliffs and rocky shorelines. It features dark green, leathery leaves and large, showy flowers with snow-white petals and bright yellow centers.
11. Easter Daisy
The Easter daisy is a wildflower that blooms in early spring and grows in dry, sunny areas. Most often found in the dry western plains of the United States, it features big white blooms that are almost as wide as they are tall.
12. Cape Daisy
Hardy and easy to grow, this two-foot-tall annual daisy blooms all summer and fall. It features large flowers that are creamy white with black and bronze in the center and measure three to four inches across.
13. Paris Daisy
Paris daisies feature large yellow centers with smaller petals that bloom from spring through late summer. They grow to just under eight inches and come in a variety of colors, including white, purple, and pink.
This vigorous plant is perfect for difficult spots where nothing else can survive. It blooms from early summer to fall and features a striking combination of gray-green foliage and bright yellow daisies.
15. Swan River Daisy
Swan River daisies feature prolific blue, pink, or white blooms that nearly cover the entire plant and almost hide the gray-green foliage underneath. They prefer full sun and bloom from spring to fall.
16. Blue Marguerite
Blue Marguerite daisies feature a vibrant periwinkle blue color with a bright yellow center. Growing to heights up to three feet, they prefer full sunlight and attract birds, bees, and butterflies.
Livingstone daisies feature iridescent petals that make the blossoms shimmer in bright light. Native to semi-desert areas of South Africa, they grow as a warm-season annual in most of the United States.
18. Tahoka Daisy
Native to the mid-western United States, Tahoka daisies feature dense, compact leaves and beautiful lavender flowers with bright yellow centers. They bloom from May through September.
Airy and delicate, Silver Tansy daisies feature gray-green foliage and clouds of tiny pure white daisies with a dense and bushy appearance. It is extremely disease resistant and easy to grow.
20. Alaska Daisy
A cultivator of the Shasta daisy, the Alaska daisy features Large white flowers perfect for fresh floral arrangements. It blooms from early summer to fall and is deer and rabbit resistant.
21. Blue Eyed Daisy
This striking daisy variety features silvery white petals that offset the steel-blue center eyes. It grows to two feet tall, prefers full sun, thrives in heat, and blooms all summer long.
22. Dahlberg Daisy
The Dahlberg daisy features fragrant, daisy-like yellow blossoms that bloom in July and August and needle-like leaves. Due to the fact that it only grows one foot high, it is best grown as a ground cover.
23. Pyrethrum Daisy
Pyrethrum daisy is a showy perennial that forms a compact mound of fern-like foliage with a spattering of shimmery white flowers. It prefers sun or part shade and dry to medium, well-drained soil.
Whirled Leaf daisies, also called Whirled Wood asters, are native wildflowers found in the mountains of North Carolina. It spreads by underground runners and prefers cool wooded locations.
25. Tricolor Daisy
Introduced from Morocco 200 years ago, the Tricolor Daisy features a beautiful array of colors, including white and yellow with scarlet, mahogany, orange, or rust. The plants grow to two feet tall.
26. Prairie Fleabane
Prairie fleabane features 200 small daisy-like flowers per plant. It’s a beautiful wildflower with three-quarter-inch blooms with 50 to 100 short and narrow white petals and a yellow center disk.
27. Rough Burr-daisy
The Rough Burr-Daisy wildflower grows up to seventeen inches high on hairy, creeping stems with burrs that are less sharp than other burr daisies. It features attractive mauve to white flowers with yellow centers.
28. Butter Daisy
The Butter Daisy is an easy-to-grow, low-maintenance summer annual. It features prolific yellow flowers that bloom from May until the first frost and provide a striking contrast with the bright green foliage.
29. Seaside Daisy
Also known as seaside fleabane or beach aster, the Seaside Daisy is a wildflower native to the coastline of Oregon and California. It just reaches one foot tall and features flowers in shades of purple and lavender.
The Becky Shasta Daisy features large, white, single blooms with yellow centers backdropped with leathery, green foliage. Sturdy and long-lasting, these blooms make a great cut flower.
31. Spanish Daisy
The Spanish Daisy, also known as Latin American fleabane, originated from Mexico and South America. It grows to one foot tall with very bushy foliage and white blooms with a yellow center.
Purple Coneflowers bloom for two months in mid to late summer and may even re-bloom in the fall. They feature beautiful purple to lavender blooms that attract butterflies, bees, and other pollinators, including hummingbirds.
33. Chocolate Daisy
The chocolate daisy may look like a simple yellow daisy, but it smells just like your favorite cup of hot cocoa. It features small two-inch yellow flowers that are bright yellow, with eight petals in a simple ray shape.
34. Crown Daisy
Unlike other daisies, crown daisies aren’t grown for ornamental purposes. They’re grown primarily for consumption. The bittersweet, peppery leaves and the flowers are either eaten fresh in a salad or as cooked greens.
35. Damiantia Daisy
Damianita daisies grow to about a foot high and about the same across. They feature a highly aromatic scent and beautiful medium to dark green foliage studded with bright yellow blossoms.
Engelmann’s daisy is one of the most adaptable and hardy plants, growing naturally in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It features fuzzy green foliage and bright yellow flowers.
37. Felicia Daisy
Felicia Daisy, also known as Cape Town Blue, is a heat-tolerant and free-flowering plant that grows up to one foot high, making it perfect as a ground cover. It features bright blue flowers that bloom all season long.
Native to South Africa, this stunning African daisy features large, four-inch wide flowers in a bright bronze-orange flame color surrounding a golden disk. The foliage comes in a silvery green
39. Gaillardia Daisy
The Gaillardia Daisy, also known as Blanket Flower, comes in eye-catching shades of red, orange, and yellow, blooming from summer until fall. They tend to grow in clumps, reaching two feet in height.
40. Golden Butterfly Marguerite Daisy
The golden version of the Butterfly Marguerite Daisy, this flower features large daisy flowers that bloom all summer, no deadheading needed. It grows to three feet high and is extremely heat tolerant.
Townsendia are small perennials that grow to eight inches in height, making them perfect for ground cover or rock gardens. They come in shades of pink, white, or purple with a yellow center.
42. Sombrero Adobe Orange Coneflower Daisy
Blooming from later summer to frost, this perennial boasts a plethora of intensely-colored orange flowers, each measuring three inches across. Petals are overlapping and slightly droopy, surrounding a copper center disk.
43. Pink Sugar Daisy
This African Daisy features cheery three-inch pink daisies with rings of magenta and gold around a large black center disk. The prolific blooms sit atop fuzzy silver foliage that grows to just twenty inches tall.
The Prairie Coneflower features pure yellow flowers that bloom from mid-summer on. Drought and disease resistant, this flower’s cheerful yellow daisies attract butterflies and bees.
45. Barberton Daisy
A cultivator of the Gerbera daisy, the Barberton daisy produces beautiful flowers in a variety of colors. It is native to Southeastern Africa and has become very popular as a houseplant.
The desert star daisy is just a few inches high, sometimes so short the flower sits at ground level. The small, one-inch-long flower contains many petals, usually white but sometimes tinged with purple.
47. Tatarian Daisy
The Tatarian daisy is an aggressive grower, lauded for its late-season blooms in lavender blue with yellow centers. Flowers are about an inch in diameter and form a flat-topped cluster.
48. Aspen Fleabane
Native to South Dakota and other western states, Aspen fleabane produces beautiful lavender-blue flowers that can have over 100 petals surrounding a yellow center disk. It typically blooms from June to October.
Low-growing with silver-white blossoms, the Upland White Aster thrives on dry soils. It can often be found growing in the sandy soil along rocky bluff tops and can grow up to two feet tall.
50. Woolly Daisy
The Woolly Daisy features flowers that measure about one inch in diameter made up of about five to ten petals and dozens of tiny yellow disc florets. It grows up to six inches and is often found in open woodland.
FAQs about Daisies
What are the most popular types of daisies?
Daisies are an extremely popular type of flower due to their simple beauty and cheerful charm. There are several popular types of daisies, including:
- Shasta Daisy: Shasta daisies are a hybrid between several species of daisies and feature large, white flowers with a yellow center. They feature a long blooming period, so they are popular for gardens.
- African Daisy: Native to South Africa, African daisies produce flowers in vibrant colors, including orange, yellow, pink, and purple. This type of daisy features strikingly dark centers.
- Gerbera Daisy: Gerbera daisies are also known for bright and vivid colors in shades of pink, red, orange, yellow, and white. They are popular in cut floral arrangements and potted plants.
What is the scientific name for daisies?
Daisy is a common name that refers to flowers in the Asteraceae family. This is one of the largest plant families, with 24,000 to 25,000 species, including daisies, sunflowers, asters, and so many more.
Are daisies easy to grow and maintain?
Daisies are easy to grow and maintain. They are extremely hardy and disease resistant. Once established, daisies also do not require excessive watering and are generally pretty drought-tolerant.
