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Asteraceae
Painted Daisy
Tanacetum coccineum
Defense, beauty with bite, garden warrior.
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Tanacetum
- Native to
- Caucasus, Iran
- Bloom season
- Spring, Early-Summer
- Type
- Perennial
- Height
- 45–75 cm (18–30 in)
- Sunlight
- Full sun
- Soil
- Average, well-drained
- Water
- Moderate
- Hardiness
- 3–7
- Lifespan
- Long-lived perennial
Did you know
- Pyrethrum daisy is the source of natural pyrethrum—one of the world's oldest and most effective insecticides, used in organic agriculture, pet flea dips, and museum specimen preservation.
- The flowers contain pyrethrins, neurotoxins to insects but harmless to mammals—pyrethrum has been the gold standard for safe insect control for over 100 years.
- Almost the entire world supply of natural pyrethrum is now grown in Kenya and Tanzania, where over 200,000 small farmers harvest the flower heads by hand.
- Despite their commercial importance, painted daisies are also one of the most beautiful old-fashioned cut flowers, with classic daisy form in shades of carmine, rose, and pure white.
- The plant was first used as an insecticide by ancient Persians, who ground the dried flowers into a powder called 'Persian pellitory'—a trade good that traveled the Silk Road for over 2,000 years.
Color meanings
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defense
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beauty with bite
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garden warrior