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Felicia filifolia
Also called Fineleaf Felicia, Needleleaf Felicia, Wild Aster, Glumicalyx
Fine Felicia is a hardy, sprawling South African shrub of the daisy family, usually 60 to 150 cm tall, with needle-like succulent leaves and daisy-type flowers in late winter to summer. It is grown as a drought-tolerant garden shrub in sunny, well-drained spots.
Felicia filifolia is a Southern African member of the family Asteraceae. It is a hardy, sprawling shrub growing to about 1 metre tall. Leaves are narrow (filifolia = threadlike leaves) and clustered along the twigs. When blooming it is densely covered in flowerheads with ray florets that are pink-mauve to white and disc florets that are yellow. In the wild, flowers can be found August to December.
The species is widespread over mountainous areas, commonly found growing amongst rocks. It is suspected of causing haemorrhaging when ingested by sheep.
The subspecies fililolia has a large distribution, southeast from a line between about 25° south in the east of South Africa to about 30° in the west. Subspecies bodkinii occurs from Namaqualand in the north to Ceres and Humansdorp in the east. Subspecies schaeferi may be found from Namibia southwards to Worcester in the west and Willowmore in the east. Subspecies schlechteri grows in the Klein Karoo between Ceres in the west and Grahamstown in the 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 filifolia 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.
