I just found out that the little white daisies I see everywhere in England were called “English daisies” and I’d never really considered before that they might not even be a thing in America. I tried googling it, but it just talked about other, fancier types of daisy.

EDIT: thanks for the answers, guys! It’s lovely to hear about all the other wildflowers too – we just have daisies and dandelions where I live

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  1. No. Do you have yucca growing all over the place like we do?

    Edit: To be less of a smartass, we don’t really have grassy areas where I live unless someone has planted grass and is irrigating it.

  2. I don’t know the varieties, but daisies are a very common flower in America.

  3. Many places have daisies, yes, but this is a massive country with many different climates and biomes. Very little grows “everywhere”. That said, oxeye daisies, least, grow all over the country.

  4. We have lots of native aster species that look like daisies! Black eyed susans are one of my favorites. However the oxyeye daisy is prevalent as an invasive species in a lot of the country. Not sure about everywhere but definitely in the Midwest. It’s the white and yellow flower most people think of when they think of daisies.

    https://extension.umn.edu/identify-invasive-species/oxeye-daisy

  5. No, the US is very large so the environment and plants and wildlife will vary in different regions. Daisies are common in some areas.

  6. Not really, though we do have lots of other wildflowers.

    The more and more I think on things like this, I start to realize I’m not too sure there’s much wilderness left in Europe. I feel like it’s all been cultivated or tamed in some way.

  9. We have way too many different climates for any plant to be universal across the country.

    Where I live, there’s a native plant called the [California Goldfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasthenia_californica) that is somewhat related to daisies and is pretty widespread. Bush daisies from South Africa are also really common in landscaping out here.

  11. I spend half a year in Wisconsin and they grow a lot here.

    US is huge and have the most koppen climate classification of any country so your question will vary region by region 👍🏼.

  12. We have quite a few wildflowers here in the desert.
    California poppy and Desert Marigolds are everywhere, they will even grow in gravel yards and in the cracks in the street.
    Brittlebush, Apache Plumes, Indian Paintbrush (reds and purples) Desert sand -verbena. to name a few.

  13. Around my area it’s buttercups and blue bonnets. I’ve lived in a completely different part of the country and I swear corn was growing in every nook and cranny

  14. Along the edge of the woods where I used to live in Michigan we had tons of daisies. But we also had a lot of other wildflowers. Milkweed, thistle, goldenrod, lupines, and tiger lilies were the most common. By the water there would be a lot of ladyslippers.

    In WI where my dad is, there’s thousands of trilliums in the woods every spring. Later in the season it’s a lot of buttercups. He also had dandelions, clover, tiny Johnny-jump-ups, and what I think is creeping thyme that’s taking over the yard.

    Where I live in the PA suburbs it’s mostly dandelions, honeysuckle, and clover everywhere. My tiny patio gets a lot of fleabane (kinda looks like a daisy) and blue violets in the spring that grow wild, too.

  15. In my area, the flowers that grow in grassy areas are more often dandelions and buttercups. But I guess there could be daisies.

  16. All around Florida we have wildflowers. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/691d867e496e4e6599077c022815900a

    There was actually a news broadcast about them. It asked people to not stop along the turnpike to get pictures. It was actually causing traffic. People would just pull over to get pictures and of course it’s a major highway.

    Around where I live we have these https://www.south-florida-plant-guide.com/beach-sunflower.html

    Sometimes called Beach daisies or Beach sunflowers. They grow along the roadside and along the beach dunes

  20. Not in my area, no. Our country is 40 times the size of the UK, we’re 1000 miles away, and we cover a huge variety of climates and biomes.

    I have never seen a white daisy in NJ, except in tended gardens. It would be more common to see dandelions, blue violets, honeysuckles, or purple coneflowers instead.

    When I bought my house I planted flowers in my front garden and some herbs in a raised planter out back. Daffodils, Black-eyed Susans and chives have taken over their respective planters like invasive species.

  21. Where I live in Western Montana, there are plenty of individual fields that have lots of daisies. We also have a lot of dandelions, probably more than daisies. They come in spring and then are mostly gone the rest of summer.

  22. We have daisies and coneflowers (e.g., black-eyed susans), and many other wildflowers in Michigan. Here’s are some examples: [https://www.mlive.com/travel/2016/08/the_most_beautiful_wildflowers.html](https://www.mlive.com/travel/2016/08/the_most_beautiful_wildflowers.html)

    There’s also a field of [American Lotus](https://mbgna.umich.edu/native-plant-of-the-week-american-lotus/) in my county, located in a metropark on the shore of Lake Erie, and [trillium](https://mbgna.umich.edu/native-plant-of-the-week-trillium/) are common in regional wooded areas.

  23. Two of the state of Georgia on top one another are about as big north south wise as the entire UK, Georgia is a southern state with another 4 north of it before you reach the border with Canada and some of those states are larger north south than Georgia. Our country is as wide as almost 9.5 UK side by side, just the state of Georgia is 230 miles wide versus 300 miles for the UK and that’s only going off the widest point of the UK, Georgia is fairly boxy.

  24. Depends on the time of year. We get a lot of wildflowers in spring, both natural and the ones the state scatters on roadsides. By now we’re mostly past that and into dandelion and thistle season.

  25. No. Out in the country it’s almost all just a lot of tall grassy type plants. I don’t know what they are. The only one I recognize is hemp.

  26. Fleabane is kinda close but they get tall not low to the ground, kinda like the buttercups when left alone, but we have low growing violets that give a similar feel which grow wild in the South East.

  27. Where I grew up there were daisies everywhere, where I recently moved there aren’t any—but there are plenty of other wild flowers. I miss the daisies.

  28. Depends where you are. I just drove across New Hampshire, and the highway edges were covered in daisies. I’d bet the English ones.

    Invasive species are so widespread, many people assume they are native to their region, like dandelions in America.

  29. Most of the east coast is still covered in forests or what has been cleared is used for active farmland. I don’t really see many open grassy areas. We do have small flowers that sometimes grow along sidewalks tho

  30. Yes, although there are quite a lot of flowers that *look* like daisies but aren’t technically, like annual fleabane (*Erigeron annuus*).

  32. Um, so Great Britain only has 5 ecoregions while the USA has, well, A LOT more that 5…

    USA:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ecoregions_in_the_United_States_(EPA)#Ecoregions_in_the_United_States

    Great Britain:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ecoregions_in_the_United_Kingdom

    https://www.oneearth.org/bioregions/great-britain-ireland-faroe-islands-pa9/#:~:text=The%20Great%20Britain%2C%20Ireland%20%26%20Faroe%20Islands%20bioregion%20is%20part%20of,5)%20English%20Lowlands%20Beech%20Forests.

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