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Phaenocoma prolifera

Common names: pink everlasting, pink strawflower, Cape everlasting (Eng.); rooisewejaartjie, strooiblommetjie (Afr.)

Family: Asteraceae

... For more details about the structure of these flowers see Asteraceae . Flowers are borne from spring to midsummer ...

06 / 09 / 2004 | Marinda Koekemoer | National Herbarium Pretoria

Helichrysum petiolare

Common names: silver bush everlasting, herbal helichrysum, bedding helichrysum (Eng.), kooigoed, kruie (Afr.), imphepho (Xho.)

Family: Asteraceae

06 / 09 / 2004 | Roger Oliver | Harold Porter NBG

Stoebe

Common names: hartebeeskaroobos (Afr.)

Family: Asteraceae

... will recognize members of this genus as belonging to the Asteraceae. There are no showy ray flowers and the white or ...

21 / 06 / 2004 | Marinda Koekemoer | National Herbarium Pretoria

Seriphium plumosum

Common names: silver stoebe (Eng.); slangbos, vaalbossie, Khoi-kooigoed (Afr.)

Family: Asteraceae

14 / 06 / 2004 | L Badenhorst | Kirstenbosch NBG

Asteraceae

Common names: daisy family, sunflower family, thistle family (Eng.); madeliefie-familie, sonneblom-familie (Afr.) Class: Dicotyledoneae (Angiospermae) Order: Astera

Family: Asteraceae

... the suffix -aceae to the name. In this way the family name Asteraceae is made up by using the name Aster and adding ... in so many different localities and habitats. Family: Asteraceae (Compositae) Asteraceae The economic value of the representatives of this ...

26 / 04 / 2004 | Paul Herman | Pretoria NBG

Artemisia afra

Common names: wild wormwood, African wormwood (Eng.); wilde-als (Afr.); umhlonyane (isiXhosa); mhlonyane (isiZulu); lengana (Tswana); zengana (Southern Sotho)

Family: Asteraceae

19 / 04 / 2004 | Liesl Van der Walt | Kirstenbosch NBG

Helichrysum umbraculigerum

Common names: woolly umbrella helichrysum (Eng.); kerriekruie (Afr.)

Family: Asteraceae

22 / 03 / 2004 | T Hutton-squire | Kirstenbosch NBG

Oldenburgia grandis

Common names: Suurberg cushion bush, mountain hunchback, rabbit's ears, lamb's ears, donkey's ears (Eng.); Suurbergkussingbos, Suurbergse dikblaarlepelboom, basters

Family: Asteraceae

... Proteaceae. In reality there is little resemblance between Asteraceae and Proteaceae. The genus Oldenburgia has four ... flowers show that it belongs in the daisy family (Asteraceae). This species has the largest flowers of our indigenous Asteraceae family, having a diameter of 100 to 130 mm. ...

02 / 02 / 2004 | Anthony Hitchcock | Kirstenbosch NBG

Felicia heterophylla

Common names: true-blue daisy (Eng.); bloublomastertjie (Afr.)

Family: Asteraceae

26 / 01 / 2004 | Paul Herman | National Herbarium Pretoria

Euryops virgineus

Common names: honey euryops, river resin bush (Eng.); rivierharpuisbos, heuningmagriet (Afr.)

Family: Asteraceae

05 / 01 / 2004 | Paul Herman | National Herbarium Pretoria

Helichrysum splendidum

Common names: cape gold (Eng.); geelsewejaartjie (Afr.); phefo-ea-loti, toanae-moru (S.Sotho)

Family: Asteraceae

... geel means yellow. Helichrysum splendidum belongs to the Asteraceae or daisy family, one of the largest and best-known ...

29 / 12 / 2003 | Liesl Van der Walt | Kirstenbosch NBG

Heterolepis aliena

Common names: rock daisy (Eng.); rotsgousblom (Afr.)

Family: Asteraceae

17 / 11 / 2003 | Alice Notten | Kirstenbosch NBG

Helichrysum nudifolium

Common names: Hottentot's tea (Eng.); Hottentotstee (Afr.); letapiso, mohlomela-tsie-oa-thaba (Southern Sotho); ludvutfane (Swazi); icholocholo (Xhosa, Zulu); isidw

Family: Asteraceae

10 / 11 / 2003 | Phakamani Xaba | Kirstenbosch NBG