Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Dimorphotheca ecklonis

Flower head and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Perth, WA

Back of flower head. Photographer Richard Spellenberg, Africa

Flower heads and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Perth, WA

Flowering plant. Photographer Richard Spellenberg, Africa

Common name

Cape daisy

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Garden escape. Coastal, especially the Sydney area. ACT. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced herbaceous shrub to 1 m high, becoming woody with age. Stems sticky hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, the lower leaves 5–8 cm long, 10–20 mm wide, upper leaves decreasing in size to 2–3 cm long, 3–5 mm wide. Leaves slightly fleshy, margins entire to coarsely toothed, bases more or less stem clasping, tips pointed. Flower heads with 12–21 'petals' 15–30 mm long, white to bright pink, blue or pink to violet on lower surface. Flower centres blue to dark, 15-20 mm wide. Flower heads single or in loose clusters. Flowering: Apr.–Dec.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dimorphotheca~ecklonis (accessed 10 February 2021)

SANBI description:  http://pza.sanbi.org/dimorphotheca-ecklonis  (accessed 10 February 2021)