Trailing African daisy
Dimorphotheca fruticosa (L.) DC.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Shrubby daisybush, Dimorphotheca, Beach Rain Daisy, Shrubby Rain Daisy, Creeping Marguerite
Formerly Blaxium decumbens, Calendula diffusa, Calendula fruticosa, Osteospermum fruticosum, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Cape Prov. to KwaZulu-NatalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- French
- ostéosperme
- Russian
- Остеоспермум кустарниковый
- Spanish
- Margarita sudafricana
- Chinese
- 叢生藍眼菊
- Chinese (China)
- 叢生蓝眼菊, 匍匐异果菊（丛生蓝目菊）
- Afrikaans
- rankmagriet
- Turkish
- Afrika Papatyası
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Royal Horticultural Society, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Dimorphotheca fruticosa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.