Perennial, mat-forming herb. Stems prostrate, to 30 cm long, sometimes branched, hairy, purplish. Lower leaves round in outline, to 5 cm long, 5-lobed, petiolate. Upper leaves smaller, entire to divided. Capitula to 4 cm across; summer to autumn. Ray florets white or pink. Disk florets yellow. Achenes about 2 mm long. [Chrysanthemum weyrichii Miyabe & Miyake, Leucanthemum weyrichii Maxim.]
Japan, Russia
Suitable as a rockery plant, particularly in coastal areas.
May be returned to Chrysanthemum.
D.×grandiflorum (Ramat.) Kitam. (D. indicum × ?), was a name briefly used for the Florist's Chrysanthemum, which was probably raised in China and is an erect or spreading perennial herb or subshrub to 1.5 m tall with clusters of large capitula (to 30 cm across) and white, yellow or pink ray florets. It is now retained in Chrysanthemum ×morifolium Ramat. See under this name for a brief history.
Source: (2002). Dahlia. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press. (as Dendranthema weyrichii)
