Gazania rigida yellow at Minwater

This yellow-flowering Gazania rigida of the Little Karoo near Oudtshoorn has wider leaf-lobes than some other plants seen, for instance those in the Biedouw Valley.

To be called Karoobotterblom (Karoo butter flower) there should be a yellow flowering form.

The dark markings are not quite at the ray floret bases and don’t reach the sides of the ray laminae or blades. On some plants the dark markings appear continuous in a ring from covering the width of their laminae.

The ovate, elliptic or obovate rays show age by rolling in their lateral margins (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist).