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Felicia cana

Felicia cana is a low, slender, densely white-felted shrublet up to about 15 cm tall, native to the southern coast of South Africa's Western Cape. It is grown for its small blue daisy-like flowers and is best kept dry and in full sun.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out fully between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix.
Temperature
Mild temperate conditions; protect from frost, roughly below -2 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Cape Prov.

About

Felicia cana is a low and slender shrublet of up to 15 cm (1⁄2 ft) high, covered in white felty hairs, that is assigned to the family Asteraceae. It has alternately arranged leaves, and flower heads of about 16 mm (0.63 in) across, with 3–4 whorls of involucral bracts, and about 20 blue purple ray florets, surrounding many yellow disc florets in the centre. Very characteristic for the species are also the middle-long hairs with forked tips on the surface of its fruits. It is an endemic species that is restricted to a zone along the southern coast of the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Where it grows

Felicia cana occurs in the Western Cape province of South Africa between Riversdale and Bredasdorp.

Other Felicia plants

African Felicia · Felicia alba · Blue daisy · Soft Felicia · Felicia annectens · Felicia bellidioides · Kingfisher Daisy · Shortleaf Felicia · Felicia canaliculata · Pokkie Felicia · Broad Felicia · Felicia deserti

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Felicia cana 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.

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