The chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium) is a daisy-family flowering plant whose dried and fresh blossoms — known in Chinese as jú huā (菊花) — are steeped into a pale, honeyed herbal infusion and used in East Asian cooking. Mildly floral and faintly bittersweet, the flower is more often drunk than chewed, prized as a cooling, fragrant tisane.