Cultivars
There are many cultivars of this plant, please contact your local nursery for available varieties.
'Double Orange'
This flower is borne on short stems and is large and orange with double centres.
'Flore Pleno'
This plant has bright double yellow flowers.
'Gwen's Pink'
This single flower is salmon pink with yellow centres with rings of dark brown.
'Yellow Buttons' or 'Yellow'
This perennial grows to 200 mm (7µ in) tall with grey green leathery foliage andproduces large bright yellow daisy-like flowers during spring. It prefers an open sunny position, and tolerates most well drained moderately fertile soils and is frost hardy once established. This perennial is grown in rockeries or mass planted as a ground cover or used along front borders in cottage gardens. It may also be grown in containers and requires little care.
'Variegata'
This prostrate mat forming cultivar has small variegated leaves and produces short stemmed yellow flowers. It is used as a ground cover or planted in rockeries.
Other similar species.
Gazania splendens
This species and its cultivars have a spreading or trailing habit with glossy dark green oblanceolate leaves that whitish on the underside. It produces yellow flowers with brown markings towards the base and there are many cultivars available.'Alba' produces white flowers with yellow and brown markings at the base of each petal.
Gazania tomentosa
This species and its cultivars have a trailing habit with silvery foliage. It produces yellow flowers that have a black dot at the base of each petal. There are many cultivars available that produce white, yellow, orange or bronze flowers that have darker markings at the base of each petal. The cultivar 'Silver Beauty'has silvery foliage and produces pure yellow flowers.