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Carpet Daisies

Dymondia

Carpet Daisies
Photo: Stickpen, Public domain
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Drought tolerant

About

Dymondia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. There is only one known species, Dymondia margaretae, endemic to the Cape Province region of South Africa.

Dymondia was first discovered and named after Margaret Elizabeth Dryden-Dymond, South African horticulturalist, botanical collector and teacher who worked at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden (1909-1952).

How to grow it

Light: full sun, part shade

Habit: 2 inches (51 mm) high, spreads to make a carpet like ground cover. Non-invasive, slow-growing.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dymondia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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