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Felicia
Also called Wild Asters
Felicia is a genus of small shrubs, perennial or annual herbaceous plants, with 85 known species, that is assigned to the daisy family (Compositae or Asteraceae). Like in almost all Asteraceae, the individual flowers are 5-merous, small, and clustered in typical heads, which are surrounded by an involucre of between two and four whorls of bracts. In Felicia, the centre of the head is taken by yellow, seldom whitish or blackish blue disc florets, and is almost always surrounded by one single whorl of mostly purple, sometimes blue, pink, white, or yellow ligulate florets, and rarely, ligulate florets are absent. These florets sit on a common base (or receptacle) and are not individually subtended by a bract (or palea). Most species occur in the Cape Floristic Region, which is probably the area where the genus originates and had most of its development.
Many taxa assigned to Felicia occur in fynbos and in the Karoo. Some are sand dune specialists, such as F. amelloides and F. amoena, while others prefer to grow on rocky substrate, like F. petiolata and others in the section Neodetris. The East African annuals can be found in Miombo woodland, while a few, such as F. uliginosa, strongly associate with wet habitats. Further taxa exemplified by F. muricata subsp. cinerascens and the annuals of Namibia are very drought resistant. The taxon density of Felicia reduces from the south-west to the north-east.
African Felicia · Felicia alba · Blue daisy · Soft Felicia · Felicia annectens · Felicia bellidioides · Kingfisher Daisy · Shortleaf Felicia · Felicia cana · Felicia canaliculata · Pokkie Felicia · Broad Felicia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Felicia (plant) by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
