INGREDIENTS Leave to stand for 15 minutes. 1 handful of oxeye Next slice your rustic bread daisy greens into portions, and lightly (chopped) toast. Drizzle a generous amount of olive oil over the 2 garlic cloves bread, then top with the (crushed) tomato and oxeye daisy mix. 14 cherry tomatoes Serve immediately as a light (quartered) luncheon snack. 1 tsp red wine vinegar By Robin Harford Olive oil Salt & pepper Rustic bread

INSTRUCTIONS Oxeye Put chopped cherry tomatoes into a bowl. Make sure they are ripe and at room Daisy temperature, then add the greens, crushed garlic and red wine vinegar. Mix together. Bruschetta Season with salt and pepper. Makes 2 servings ID Characteristics Vectors of Spread • Daisy-like flowers • By seed: A single plant produces • Lower leaves are spoon-shaped, up to 26,000 seeds. and the upper ones have wavy • Vegetatively: underground to toothed edges stems can send up new plants • Up to 1m tall and create a monoculture. • Oxeye Daisy is also found in seed mixes and in the Look-alikes horticulture trade. Not all daisies are invasive! • Shasta daisy (Chrysanthemum Impacts maximum) is a harmless ornamental, with larger yellow • Forms dense stands that disk (2-3cm) and white ray decrease forage available for petals (2-3cm). grazing livestock • Native Asters (Aster spp.) • Decreases forage available for and Fleabanes (Erigeron spp.) wildlife resemble Oxeye Daisy but • Decreases local plant typically have undivided leaf biodiversity margins without lobes or teeth. • Carries several crop diseases • English Daisy (Bellis perennis) including Yellow dwarf virus of Oxeye is fairly short and has wider, potatoes rounder leaves. However, Scentless Chamomile (Matricaria perforata) is another Daisy invasive daisy flower, with much (Leucanthemum vulgare) lacier foliage.