Leucanthemum pallens (J. Gay ex Perreym.) DC.

Leucanthemum pallens (J. Gay) DC. Prodr. 6: 47. 1837
Chrysanthemum pallens J. Gay; Perreym. PI. Frejus 91. 1833. — Arch. Bot. 2: 545. 1833. Tanacetum pallens Schultz-Bip. Tanac. 35. 1844.
A perennial, with a rootstock; stem 3-6 dm. high, sparingly long-villous or glabrous, strawcolored; leaves all oblanceolate or the upper linear, 3-6 era. long, serrate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, the lower petioled, the upper sessile; heads soUtary at the ends of the stems; involucre saucer-shaped, 5-6 mm. high, 12-15 mm. broad; bracts in 3-4 series, straw-colored or lightbrownish, with white scarious margins, the outer lanceolate and obtuse, the inner oblong and rounded at the apex; ray-flowers 15-20; ligules white, 10-12 mm. long, 3-4 n m. wide; diskcorollas yellow, 4 mm. long; tube thicker than the achenes, contracted above, about equaling the narrowly funnelform throat; lobes lanceolate; achenes subcylindric, strongly 10-angled, slightly scabrous or glabrous ; pappus of the disk-achenes wanting, that of the ray-flowers of a crown of united squamellae.
Type locality: L'Esterel, near Frfejus, France.
Distribution : Sparingly adventive in New Jersey ; native of southern France, Spain, and Italy.