Dimorphotheca sinuata

Dimorphotheca sinuata, the Namaqualand daisy and in Afrikaans jakkalsblom (jackal flower), is a sprawling, branched annual reaching heights from 10 cm to 30 cm. The plant is glandular-haired.

The lance-shaped to elliptic leaves are toothed or shallowly lobed, in picture rounded at their tips. The leaf-base is variable, rounded or tapering, sometimes so low down that a petiole could be considered absent. Leaves are up to 8 cm long.

The species is found in the Northern Cape, particularly Namaqualand and the northwest of the Western Cape, as well as the south of Namibia.

The habitat is sandy, gravelly and clay flats and slopes in dry scrub in the winter rainfall region. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century.

This is a popular garden annual that will grow in many parts of the country, attracting bees. It is frost resistant and easy to grow from seed in full sun and watered well when young (Manning, 2009; Le Roux, et al, 2005; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist; http://pza.sanbi.org; http://redlist.sanbi.org).