This ‘moon’ daisy is a great plant to sow or plant as a plug in a both small and large green roofs. It is a very common green roof plant on the European continent, when establishing dry grassland green roofs. At landscape level – it is often a short lived perennial of grasslands, disturbed soils and roadsides.
On green roofs, it tends to remain and spread on low nutrient extensive green roofs. It does like low nutrient green roof substrates at a depth of 100mm or over. However where high nutrient soils have been used it can establish quickly and then disappear, reappearing in periods of drought, when the soils break open and allow it a chance to break out through the grass.
It is a real delight, standing tall, it’s attractive flower heads moved by the lightest breeze. It flowers on roofs between late May to mid September and attracts a range of beetles, flies and hoverflies and bees, including the Common Malachite Beetle and the Marmalade Hoverfly.
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