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Natal Felicia

Felicia rosulata

Natal Felicia
Photo: Steve Law, CC BY-SA 2.0

Felicia rosulata is a small, hairy perennial daisy from the mountains of Lesotho, Eswatini and eastern South Africa, grown for its basal leaf rosette and blue-rayed flower heads. It needs well-drained soil and cool to mild conditions, similar to other mountain daisies.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately during growth and let the soil dry out between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty or sandy mix with some organic matter.
Temperature
10–25 °C; tolerates cold and light frost once established, protect from prolonged heat above 30 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. Africa

About

Felicia rosulata is a hairy, perennial, herbaceous plant of up to 30 cm (1 ft) high, that is assigned to the family Asteraceae. It has a rosette of elliptic 8 cm × 2 cm (3.1 in × 0.8 in) leaves with 3–5 veins, and long, hairy stalks, each topped with one floral head consisting of about thirty middle blue ray florets encircling many yellow disc florets. It can be found in the mountains of Lesotho, eastern South Africa and Eswatini.

Where it grows

Felicia rosulata can be found in Lesotho, Eswatini, and South Africa (Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga).

Other Felicia plants

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 rosulata 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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