Gazania tenuifolia

Gazania tenuifolia is a small, tufted annual reaching heights between 5 cm and 15 cm.

The species is found in the western parts of the Western Cape from Ceres and Clanwilliam northwards to Namaqualand in the west of Northern Cape and as far as the southwest of Namibia. The photo was taken at Naries, west of Springbok on the road to Kleinzee.

The plant grows on dry, sandy flats and lower slopes. It is not considered threatened in habitat early in the twenty first century (Le Roux, et al, 2005; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).