Postal stamp: flowers - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 2005 - 45 Euro Cent

The new series "Flowers" aims to draw people's attention to the beauty and diversity of flowers in Germany with modern yet timeless motifs. A field bouquet of daisies gives a sense of joy and happiness, summer and sun. The marguerite is a perennial, depending on the growth place about 20 to 100 centimeters tall plant with rough, dark green and depending on the species or subspecies spatulate, toothed or lobed leaves. The flowers appear from May to October, depending on the region, and are made up of white ray florets and yellow tubular flowers, which are bundled in a basket. Therefore, the plant-systematical assignment to the family of daisy family or aster family comes. The spread of our daisies extends to the whole of Europe. Growth habitats of the daisies are, depending on the ecotype, dry to moderately moist, lean, but also fat meadows, arable fields, road embankments and fallow fields.