Scientific Name: Gerbera jamesonii (incl. hybrids)
Common Name: Transvaal daisy, gerbera
Family Name: Asteraceae
Origin: Africa, Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 8b: (-9.4 to -7 °C)
Plant Type: Annual (grown as), Flowering cut plant, Flowering pot plant
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Mounded
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Indoor plant, Perennial border
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Basal, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Tomentose, Oblong, Obovate, Spatulate, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Head (capitulum), White, Orange, Yellow, Pink, Red, Dark-red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Achene, Brown, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves basal, most 15-45cm long x 6-15cm wide, basal, oblanceolate with shallow lobes; petioles floppy, pubescent; heads 7-11cm wide on peduncles 30-45cm tall, ray florets commonly red, yellow, orange, white (vary with cultivar).