Arctotheca calendula
Cape Weed
Cape weed is an invasive weed forms rosettes and sends out stolons and can spread across the ground quickly. The leaves are covered with white woolly hairs. Tall, hairy stems bear daisy-like flowers with small yellow petals that sometimes have a green or purple tint surrounded by white or yellow ray petals. It is an attractive ornamental groundcover but needs to be controlled.
Contributed by @knockalong
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Full sun to partial shade
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Very little water
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Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)
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Light and free draining
Common name
Cape Weed
Latin name
Arctotheca calendula
type
Perennial
family
Asteraceae
ph
5.0 - 8.0 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun to partial shade
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Frost
Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)
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Soil
Light and free draining
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Water
Very little water
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
full grown dimensions
0.25 M
0.15 M
Arctotheca calendula
Cape weed is an invasive weed forms rosettes and sends out stolons and can spread across the ground quickly. The leaves are covered with white woolly hairs. Tall, hairy stems bear daisy-like flowers with small yellow petals that sometimes have a green or purple tint surrounded by white or yellow ray petals. It is an attractive ornamental groundcover but needs to be controlled.
Planting
From Early Spring TO Early Spring
Exercise care when planting and take steps to restrict its potential to spread and in doing so, excluding native plants from colonising and possibly expanding into surrounding plant communities. Capeweed infestations may become almost 100% of plant cover which affects soil moisture and nutrient availability to the detriment of other species.
dadayba
AurigaFlora
knockalong