| Scientific Name: | Osteospermum cvs. |
| Common Name: | osteospermum, cape daisy |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Africa - southern, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Horizontal |
| Form: | Mounded, Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Leathery, Lanceolate, Ovate, Spatulate, Dentate, Pinnately lobed, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Orange, Yellow, Violet, Purple, Pink, Magenta, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown, Sep-Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves usually alternate, lanceolate to obovate, 4-10cm long x 1-3cm wide, slightly fleshy, margins entire or irregularly denate to pinnately lobed; flower heads 5-10cm wide; disk florets dark purple, blue, or yellow; ray florets 12-30, most obolanceolate, may close together at night, white, pink, purple, lavender, yellow, orange, or bicolor. | |