The name is old English, a contraction of charming eye day ', the flower of the habit of opening and closing with the rising and setting of the sun. The same wild daisies (Bel / is perennis or the eternal beauty) were associated with various goddesses of love in antiquity. By the fifteenth century they became known as Amore, or flower of love, and were worn by knights to show that their love was returned by their chosen lady.
