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Athanasia pectinata is a small shrub from the Western Cape of South Africa, growing up to about 1.2 m tall with split leaves and yellow daisy-like flower heads in spring. It is a wild species of damp clay soils and is rarely grown in gardens, so there is little cultivation guidance.
Athanasia pectinata is a species of plant from the Western Cape of South Africa.
This plant is endemic to South Africa. It grows in the Western Cape, where it is found on damp clay soils between Hermanus and Gouritsmond.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Athanasia pectinata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
