Chrysanthemum morifolium
daisy chrysanthemum
A flat open face in the most straightforward yellow there is. It is the flower equivalent of good news told simply, and it will outlast almost everything else in the vase.
Native toBred in China from wild chrysanthemum species
In seasonYear-round
Vase life10 – 18 days
Pairs withCraspedia · Spray carnation · Eucalyptus
Elsewhere
Yellow chrysanthemums meant slighted love in the Victorian scheme. In China and Japan the same flower is closer to nobility and long life, which is the older and more widely held reading by some distance.