Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Gazania rigens
Common name
Treasure Flower, Coast Gazania
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Urban bushland, roadsides, gardens, and other disturbed sites, and coastal dunes and headlands. Coastal north from Tathra. Sydney area and along the M4 Western Motorway towards Katoomba. Canberra.
Notes
Introduced sprawling perennial herb to 0.3 m tall. Flower stalks hairless. Leaves alternating along the stems, often densely clustered, 4–12 cm long, 5–40 mm wide, highly variable in shape, upper surface usually green and hairless, lower surface white-hairy with a green midrib, margins entire or irregularly lobed, tips pointed. Flower heads 70-120 mm in diameter overall, with numerous 'petals' that are bright orange to cream with a black base marked with a white dot, sometimes wholly yellow or orange, darker at the base. Centres orange to yellow. Flower heads cup-shaped behind the 'petals', single. Flowering: most of year.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gazania~rigens (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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