Gazania rigens is a spreading, low-growing perennial plant that grows up to 50 cm tall and wide. It produces brilliant yellow daisy-like composite flowers throughout the summer. The plant forms tufts with numerous narrow, lanceolate basal leaves. It bears solitary capitula at the end of peduncles, each containing a central disc of tubular flowers surrounded by ligulate peripheral flowers that vary in color, though orange-yellow is most common.
Gazania rigens is a spreading, low-growing perennial plant that grows up to 50 cm tall and wide. It produces brilliant yellow daisy-like composite flowers throughout the summer. The plant forms tufts with numerous narrow, lanceolate basal leaves. It bears solitary capitula at the end of peduncles, each containing a central disc of tubular flowers surrounded by ligulate peripheral flowers that vary in color, though orange-yellow is most common.
Gazania rigens is a spreading, low-growing perennial plant that grows up to 50 cm tall and wide. It produces brilliant yellow daisy-like composite flowers throughout the summer. The plant forms tufts with numerous narrow, lanceolate basal leaves. It bears solitary capitula at the end of peduncles, each containing a central disc of tubular flowers surrounded by ligulate peripheral flowers that vary in color, though orange-yellow is most common.
DESCRIPTION: Gazania rigens is a spreading, low-growing, half-hardy perennial,
growing to 50 cm (20 in) tall and wide, with blue-grey foliage and brilliant yellow, daisy- like composite flowerheads throughout the summer. It is a herbaceous plant that is perennial in South Africa and in the Mediterranean regions, and annual in the gardens of colder regions. Low enough, it rarely exceeds 30cm. It forms tufts, often very abundant. Its leaves all basal, numerous, narrow and more or less lanceolate, usually entire, sometimes pennatilobed. The obverse of the leaves is shiny green, the grayish white lapel. Like all compounds , gazania flowers in flower heads that are often taken for simple flowers. The capitula are solitary at the end of peduncles just beyond the leaves. Each capitulum is formed by a central disc of tubular flowers, surrounded by ligulate peripheral flowers, whose color is very variable. The orange-yellow flowers are however the most numerous, often with black spots at the base of the ligules. The fruit is an achene, containing several seeds.