Dimorphotheca jucunda

Dimorphotheca jucunda, the bergbietou in Afrikaans, is usually pink to mauve, i.e. the ray flowers commonly have those colours. There is, however, this white form called white moon. Flowers grow solitary on long peduncles.

The stems sprawl, branching from an underground base, but may also be somewhat erect. Apart from different flower colours, the leaves are also quite variable: sometimes succulent, sometimes toothed and inconsistently shaped, although usually long and narrow.

The plant lives in the eastern parts of South Africa, from the Eastern Cape to Limpopo, including Swaziland and Lesotho.

The plants habitat is summer rainfall, rocky grassland where moisture is likely in the warm season. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century (Manning, 2009; http://redlist.sanbi.org).