Bees, butterflies and other insects have been observed visiting this species and could possibly be involved with pollination.

Felicia tenella subsp tenella is an annual species. This means that its entire life-cycle, from germination, growing, flowering and going to seed, takes a single year till completion. Germination, for this late winter to spring-flowering species, occurs in the autumn, when ample moisture becomes regularly available, in the form of rain and the weather becomes cooler.

Seeds may ripen from the middle towards the end of spring. This is also the period when the rain in its habitat becomes less regular. None of the dispersed seeds will germinate since the temperature will begin to rise and the availability of much needed moisture will become less common. The now rising temperatures, coupled with the lack of moisture will not induce germination. This species thus dodges the hot, dry summer months and survives the unfavourable conditions as ungerminated seeds in in the seed bank.

All florets possesses a pappus, the tuft of hair or a single row of stiff, small bristles. The pappus facilitates dispersal by acting as a parachute and thereby improving its chances of successful dispersal. A persistent or caducous pappus also provides protection to the cypsela while still in the involucre. The presence of bristles on the pappus is considered to be critically important in preventing secondary dispersal of seeds that have already reached the soil. These are just some of the features which enable Asteraceae to establish easily in arid regions.

In old flowers the involucre opens to leave the cypsela exposed. Normally very small and light, the cypsela become easily separated and are able to drift away by means of the parachute-like nature of the pappus.