Zone 2 Coastal winter rainfall, frost free
Dioscorea elephantipes (L'Hér.) Engl.
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Common names: turtle back, elephant's foot, Hottentots' bread
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Diosma hirsuta L. 'Blue Downs'
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Common names: wild buchu (Eng.); rooiboegoe, wildeboegoe, Hottentotsboegoe (Afr.)
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Dimorphotheca jucunda E.Phillips
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Common names: trailing pink daisy, trailing mauve daisy (Eng.); bergbietou, bloubietou (Afr.); umasigcolo nkonekazi, u-Mesigcolo-nkonekazi (Zulu) (= Osteospermum jucundum (E.Phillips) Norl.)
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Dimorphotheca sinuata DC.
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Common names: Namaqualand daisy, African daisy (Eng.); gousblom, jakkalsblom, botterblom, namakwalandse madeliefie (Afr.)
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Dimorphotheca pluvialis (L) Moench
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Common names: rain daisy, Cape daisy, white Namaqualand Daisy, ox-eye daisy (Eng.); reënblommetjie, witbotterblom, witmargriet (Afr.)
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Dietes iridioides (L.) Sweet ex Klatt
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Common names: wild iris, wood iris (Eng.); wilde-iris (Afr.); indawo-yehlathi, isiqiki-sikatokoloshe, isishuphe somfula (isiZulu)
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Dimorphotheca cuneata (Thunb.) Less.
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Common names: rain flower, white bietou, Karoo bietou (Eng.); reënblom, witbietou, karoobietou (Afr.)
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Dimorphotheca eckloni DC.
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Common names: Cape marguerite, Van Staden's River daisy, Sundays River daisy, white daisy bush, blue-and-white daisy bush (Eng.); Kaapse magriet, jakkalsbos, Vanstadensrivier madeliefie, Sondagsrivier madeliefie (Afr.)
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Dierama reynoldsii I.Verd.
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Common names: This species does not appear to have a common name of its own, but the genus Dierama is known as hairbells, fairybells, wandflowers; grasklokkies (Afr.)
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Dietes bicolor (Steud.) Sweet ex Klatt
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Common names: yellow wild iris, peacock flower (Eng.); uintjie, poublom (Afr.)
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