Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dimorphotheca fruticosa
Common name
Trailing African Daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Garden escape. Grown as a hardy rockery or border plant. Urban bushland, coastal sites, and stream banks. Mainly coast and ranges north from Tahmoor. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to about 0.4 m high, sprawling, rooting from the nodes. Leaves fleshy, alternating up the stems, to about 7 cm long, 25 mm wide, rather thick-textured, rough and sticky, margins entire to shallowly toothed or scalloped. Flower heads with about 12–15 'petals' each about 30–45 mm long, usually mauve near the centre, mainly white above, purplish beneath, sometimes pinky mauve above. Centres nearly black before the flowers fully open, violet when fully open. Flower heads cup shaped to hemisperical below the 'petals'. About 12-15 bracts surrounding the flower heads below the 'petals'. Flower heads single. Flowers mostly spring to summer, but often a few flowers present year-round.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/8e11bdbb-1c28-4418-bd38-9e433d468c45 (accessed 16 January 2021)
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