Common name
English: Blue and white daisybush
German: Kapmargerite
Portuguese: Margarida-do-cabo
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2614)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2517)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2126)
Order: Asterales (221)
Family: Asteraceae (219)(family description)
Genus: Osteospermum (1)
Epithet: ecklonis (DC.) Norl. (1)
Synonym: Dimorphotheca ecklonis DC.
ecklonis => in honor of Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795-1868), Danish apothecary and botanist who collected East and South Africa
Characteristics
Climate: sub-tropical
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: herb
Flower colour: purple, violet, pink, beige, white