Scientific Name: Gazania cv.
Common Name: gazania, treasure flower, African daisy
Family Name: Asteraceae
Origin: Africa
Hardiness Zone: Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °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, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, 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, oblanceolate 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.