The native species has pearly white flowers centered with steel-blue and encircled with a narrow, yellow band. The flowers are held well above the plant, which forms a compact mound. The leaves are handsome grayish-green that combines well with other colors in the garden.

The African Daisy is a perennial with flowers that come in a variety of colors including red, gold, and blue. They are characterized by generally having a darker center, and the leaves are silvery in color. These flowers are great in cut flower arrangements or in the garden or as a container plant.

The daisy-like composite flower consists of disc florets and ray florets, growing singly at the end of branches or sometimes in inflorescences of terminal corymbose cymes. The disc florets are pseudo-bisexual and come in several colors such as blue, yellow and purple.

The hardy types usually show a dark blue center in the disc until the yellow pollen is shed.

The ray florets are female and are found diverse colors such as white, cream, pink, purple, mauve to yellow. Some cultivars have “spooned” petals such as “Pink Whirls”.

Many species flower a second time late summer, stimulated by the cooler night temperatures.

Hardy types show profuse flowering in the spring, but they do not get a second flush of flowers.

We’ll be sharing more about this flower in future.