Name: Daisies
Scientific name: Name: Asteraceae
Known for: Loving you, or loving you not.
Record broken: Best dressed plant

Why are flowers so colourful? To attract pollinators, but it’s not just pollinators that are looking for flowers. Jurene Kemp and Allan Ellis studied the daisies of Namaqualand, South Africa. These flowers bloom en masse for a few days during the Spring. When they do, they’re a target for a voracious hunter, the tortoise. Kemp and Ellis decided to see if daisies had adaptations to hide from a predator that they couldn’t outrun.