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Felicia tenella
Felicia tenella, the bristle felicia, is an annual, sometimes biennial, herbaceous plant that may be slightly woody at its base, of 5–70 cm (2–27+1⁄2 in) tall, that is assigned to the family Asteraceae. The species is very variable in size and hairiness. Its branches may be erect or ascending, and the leaves are narrowly line-shaped, 2–5 cm (4⁄5–2 in) long and about 1 mm (0.04 in) wide. The leaves have a callous tip, lack visible nerves, and are mostly rigidly ciliate. The flower heads sit individually at the tip of stalks, have an involucre of three whorls of bracts, and about thirty light blue ray florets surrounding many yellow disc florets. Four subspecies are recognised. The species naturally occurs in the Northern Cape and Western Cape provinces of South Africa.
Felicia tenella subsp. tenella is most abundant on the Cape Peninsula, but also occurs near Worcester and Hopefield. Subsp. cotuloides occupies a strip between Calvinia in the north to Bredasdorp in the south. Subsp. longifolia ranges from the Cape Peninsula to Riversdale in the east, where it occurs in dunes. Subsp. pusilla stretches from the Cape Peninsula to Vanrhynsdorp in the north. The continued survival of all four subspecies of Felicia tenella is considered to be of least concern, because their populations are stable. The species has been cultivated in Europe for a long time.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Felicia tenella 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.
