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Felicia oleosa
Also called Oily Blue Daisy
Felicia oleosa is an evergreen, richly branched dwarf shrub of up to 30 cm (12 in) high, that is assigned to the family Asteraceae. It has narrow, awl-shaped leaves, with translucent oil or resin dots, pointing upwards, crowded on the younger stems. The flower heads have about thirteen bright blue ray florets, encircling many yellow disc florets. This species grows in the mountains dividing the Karoo region of South Africa. It is sometimes called oily blue daisy in English.
Felicia oleosa is only known from locations between Laingsburg in the west and Prince Albert in the east along the southern edge of the Great Karoo, where it grows amongst rocks, on the upper sandstone slopes of the Witteberg, the Klein and Groot Swartberg Mountains, at an altitude of around 1,500 m (4,900 ft), in a habitat called fynbos. This species has been found growing in the company of the restionid Rhodocoma arida, Pelargonium ovale, Erica nervata, E. fimbrata, E. discolor, Leucadendron dregei, Protea eximia, P. montana, Cyclopia bolusii, Lobelia tomentosa, Helichrysum tinctum, Seriphium plumosum and Stoebe plumosum.
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 oleosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
