Daisy Varieties

Daisy varieties come in a wide range of colors, sizes and flowering habits. They’re easy to grow and a boon for pollinators. They’re also a popular choice for perennial or annual gardens, or for planting in rock and sand garden areas. They can thrive in a range of environments from rocky to sandy to coastal and even your home patios.

The common daisy (Erigeron) is a classic, reliable and beautiful bloomer that’s available in almost every color imaginable. These perennial flowers are easy to grow and make great cut flowers. They’re also ideal for beginning gardeners and are well-adapted to a range of conditions, including dry, sandy or rocky soils.

Shasta daisies are another classic option for the garden. These hardy, fast-growing perennials come in a wide range of simple shades of yellow and white. They’re available as dwarf cultivars for filling pots and lining flower borders or as standard cultivars for taking center stage in traditional border designs.

Berlandiera lyrata is a lovely, versatile plant with daisy-like flowers and lyre-shaped leaves. It’s often referred to as a chocolate flower, and the blooms have a distinctive, sweet-smelling chocolate fragrance. It’s an excellent choice for creating a pollinator-friendly garden and thrives in sun or light shade in well-draining soil.

This vibrant flower is native to southwestern South Africa and grows in low clumps with ray flowers in a nuanced palette of shades. It boasts heat, drought and deer tolerance and blooms vigorously throughout the summer. It’s best grown as an annual north of Zone 9 but in milder climates like Florida or California, it can be treated as a perennial.