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Felicia cymbalariae
Felicia cymbalariae is a hairy, creeping perennial daisy up to 30 cm high from the Western Cape of South Africa, with white ray florets around yellow or dark red centres. It is a wild species of dry, rocky Cape habitats rather than a common garden or houseplant, so the care notes below are general guidance for the genus.
Felicia cymbalariae, is a hairy perennial herbaceous plant of up to 30 cm (12 in) high in the family Asteraceae. It has creeping branches that bend upwards, stalked leaves of up to 6 × 4½ cm (2.4 × 1.8 in) with few teeth or nearly entire. The flower heads are set individually on top of up to 8 cm (3 in) long stalks and contain about sixteen white ray florets of about 6 × 1½ mm around a center with many yellow or dark wine red disc florets. It can be found in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Flower heads can be found between September and June.
The subspecies ionops occurs with some overlap, generally more easterly, between the mountains around Clanwilliam in the north, via Worcester to Jonkershoek in the southeast and the Cape Peninsula in the southwest, with the Piketberg the northwestern corner of its distribution. The subspecies ionops occurs with some overlap, generally more easterly, between Clanwilliam in the north to Caledon in the south.
African Felicia · Felicia alba · Blue daisy · Soft Felicia · Felicia annectens · Felicia bellidioides · Kingfisher Daisy · Shortleaf Felicia · Felicia cana · Felicia canaliculata · Pokkie Felicia · Felicia deserti
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Felicia cymbalariae 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.
