Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Dimorphotheca pluvialis

Flower and leaves. Photographer sea-kangaroo, north of Newcastle

Carpet. Photographer Lynne Watson, South Africa

Common name

Cape Marigold

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Disturbed sites. Coastal. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to 0.40 m high. Stems sticky hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1–7 cm long, 3–25 mm wide, light green, densely hairy, margins wavy to shallowly lobed, rarely entire. Flower heads with 12–18 'petals', white above, mauve to purple below, each 15–20 mm long. Centres yellow, or yellow with a deep violet ring surrounding the yellow, 10-25 mm in diameter. Flower heads cup shaped to hemisperical below the 'petals'. 12-18 bracts surrounding the flower heads below the 'petals'. Flower heads single. Flowers Aug.–Oct.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dimorphotheca~pluvialis  (accessed 16 January, 2021)

SANBI description:  http://pza.sanbi.org/dimorphotheca-pluvialis (accessed 22 January, 2021)