ON THIS PLANT
Felicia heterophylla is a roughly hairy annual plant in the family Asteraceae. It has alternate leaves of 1–5 cm long with an entire margin or few inconspicuous teeth. The flower heads are set individually at the tip of its stems, and contain a whorl of purplish blue ray florets around a center of blackish blue disk florets. Flower heads appear in winter and spring. It is called true-blue daisy in English and bloublomastertjie in Afrikaans. It is an endemic species that only occurs in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
CHARACTERISTICS
Botanical profile.
- Genus
- Felicia
- Family
- Asteraceae
ALSO KNOWN AS
Other names.
en Blue daisy en Blue-eyed felicia en True-blue daisy
