Irish wildflowers BSBI map

South African Daisy, Osteospermum jucundum
Photographs: Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork

South African Daisy
Osteospermum jucundum
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering July-October. Annual, occasionally perennial. Garden escape.

Large pinky-white to purplish flowers with golden centres, closing in dull weather. Narrow leaves. Stems erect when young, become spreading. Can form large straggly clumps. Height to 35cm. The only hardy osteospernum species.

Often grown in gardens on well-drained light soils in full sun but an infrequently recorded garden escape or discard.

South African Daisy, Osteospermum jucundum

South African Daisy, Osteospermum jucundum
South African Daisy, Osteospermum jucundum

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