| Scientific Name: | Gazania rigens (incl. hybrid cvs.) |
| Common Name: | gazania, treasure flower, African daisy |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Africa - southern, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Weeping |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glaucous, Tomentose, Oblanceolate, Entire, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Orange, Yellow, Green, Pink, Red, Brown, Bronze, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, most oblanceolate, 8-20cm long x 1-2(-3)cm wide, margin entire or lobed, dark green with white undersides; flower heads very showy, ray floret corollas brightly coloured, most tend to be darker at the base forming a rind and/ or the centre of each corolla may be darker. | |