| Scientific Name: | Argyranthemum frutescens cvs. |
| Common Name: | Marguerite daisy, cobbitty daisy |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Dissected, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Obovate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Yellow, Pink, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves have deep narrow lobes, most obovate in outline, 2-8cm long x 2-6cm wide; inflorescence of 12-30 heads that close up at night, each 3-4cm wide, ray florets 12-30, convex, overlapping in most cultivars, disk florets form the yellow centre 1-2cm wide, below is a crown of overlapping bracts. | |