Glebionis coronaria (L.) Cass. ex Spach, syn.: Chrysanthemum coronarium (L.), Leucanthemum coronarium, Xanthophthalmum coronarium (L.) Sell & MurellEN: Annual chrysanthemum, Garland Daisy, Large Leaf Tong-Ho, Crown Daisy, Edible Chrysanthemum, DE: Kronen Wucherblume, SpeisechrysanthemeFamily: AsteraceaeSlo.: ? CR: zelenkasti ravanDate: June 23. 2010Lat.: 44.37457 Long.: 14.78238Code: Bot_0431/2010_IMG1067Habitat: dirt road side outside of abandoned fields and village gardens, semiruderal, calcareous, skeletal ground; sunny, open place; flat terrain; elevation 22 m (70 feet); average precipitations 900-1000 mm/year, average temperature 13-15 deg C, Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: red Mediterranean soil (Terra Rossa).Place: Adriatic Sea, south outskirts of village Olib, next to the trail to the Slatina bay, Island Olib, west Zadar archipelago, Croatia EC. Comment: Glebionis coronaria is a Circum-Mediterranean plant, but it grows also in Asia and it is introduced species in America. In several Mediterranean countries it isone of the most-loved of the common wildflowers. However, it is much rarer in north Adriatic Sea. It does not appear in the Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region of Slovenia along the Adriatic Sea coast. It is also absent from the Istria peninsula in Croatia (Ref. 4) but it is present on islands of Kvarner and Zadar archipelago. Although, records of this species from the islands Silba, Ist and Vir, which surround the island Olib, are known the Glebionis coronaria is not mentioned in the checklist of island Olib (Ref: 2, 4 and 5).Glebionis coronaria is an annual plant, which is not common in its genus. One can find it in two 'flavors': with totally yellow florets and with such, which are half yellow (inner part) and half white (toward the end). The plant has a long history within traditional Chinese medicine for treating fever, hypertension, headaches and inflammatory conditions. It is widely cultivated and also edible.Ref.:(1) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 444.(2) M. Milovi, S. Kovai, N. Jasprica and V. Stamenkovi, Contribution to the study of Adriatic island flora: Vascular plant species diversity in the Croatian Island of Olib, Natura Croatica, 25(25 1):25-54 (2016); available at:
www.researchgate.net/publication/304626429_Contribution_t... (3) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 908.(4) Flora Croatica Database (FCD), Department of Botany, Faculty of science, FER-ZPR, University of Zagreb (2004);
hirc.botanic.hr/fcd (accessed April 4. 2019)(5) N. Jasprica, M. Milovi, S. Kovai, V. Stamenkovi, Phytocoenotic diversity of the NE-Adriatic island of Olib, Plant Sociology, Vol. 53, No. 1. (2016), pp. 55-81.