Welcome to the first edition of the CPCC Libraries Blog new feature, Tuesday Tidbits!  Tuesday Tidbits will be your weekly dose of random facts and information about various people, places and things.  Today, in honor of the season, Tuesday Tidbits will be profiling a spring favorite: the daisy.

Daisy: “A perennial native to Europe and W Asia (Bellis perennis), with a basal rosette of oval or spoon-shaped leaves; leafless flowering stems up to 20 cm/8 in, each bearing a solitary flower-head; outer ray florets white often tinged red, inner disc florets yellow. It grows in short grassland and garden lawns where regular mowing prevents it from being smothered by taller vegetation. It spreads by short rhizomes, often becoming a pernicious weed. Forms with double flowers are grown for ornament. (Family: Compositae.)”

“Daisy.” The Crystal Reference Encyclopedia. West Chiltington: Crystal Semantics, 2005. Credo Reference. 29 Mar. 2006. Web. 19 Apr. 2011. <http://www.credoreference.com/entry/cre/daisy>.

Want to learn more about Daisies? Or another common Spring flower? Take a look at the CPCC Library’s Credo Reference Database on the Research Databases page.