Shasta daisy

noun

1. any of several horticultural varieties of Chrysanthemum superbum, having large, white, daisylike flowers.

Shasta daisy

/ ˈʃæstə /

noun

1. a Pyrenean plant, Chrysanthemum maximum, widely cultivated for its large white daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Shasta daisy¹

1890–95, Americanism; named after Mt. Shasta

Word History and Origins

Origin of Shasta daisy¹

named after Mount Shasta in California

Example Sentences

Packets of alyssum, Shasta daisy, calendula, sweet peas, poppies, and marigold can be reused for five or 10 years before their seeds get too old.

From Seattle Times

If you put two plants with different watering needs, such as penstemon—a drought-tolerant flowering plant—and the more water-loving Shasta daisy, in the same irrigation zone, “you’re going to kill one or the other. You give one less water and it’s not enough for the other.”

From Wall Street Journal

Across the park road an annual garden was loaded with vivid yellow, red and cream tulips in a circular pattern; a perennial garden includes some 225 different plants, like Shasta daisy, Mt.

From New York Times

He reported a new camassia, blue tinted, excelling all others in beauty and ability to multiply; a rainbowteosinte, a giant corn that grows eight feet tall and produces 8 to 14 ears a stalk; a giant cactus-flowering zinnia, developed from the familiar plant; a hybrid of the torch lily, the tritoma, which will bloom profusely in cold climates; an even more magnificent Shasta daisy than blooms at present; a new strain of giant asters of breath-taking fluffiness; and eight new gladioli.

From Time Magazine Archive

The evolution of cultivated plants is continuing before our eyes, and the creations of Mr. Luther Burbank, such as the stoneless plum and the primus berry, the spineless cactus and the Shasta daisy, are merely striking instances of what is always going on.

From Project Gutenberg