About Gazania heterochaeta DC.
Gazania heterochaeta DC. is a compact perennial plant that forms basal rosettes and only grows relatively short stems. Its flowers range from yellow to orange, and have an obtusely bell-shaped (campanulate) involucre that is 7 to 10 millimeters wide. This species can be distinguished by the characteristics of its involucre scales. It typically has two rows of terminal scales at the top of the involucre, and a small number of occasional parietal scales may sometimes also be present. The scales in the outer row are more than 4 millimeters long, while the inner scales are less than 4 millimeters long. Its leaves are obovate and simple, or only weakly pinnate, with rounded tips, entire margins, and surfaces that are either spiny or covered in woolly spiderweb-like hair.
