Trailing Treasureflower
Gazania rigens
- Found in India
- Bihar, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh
How to identify Trailing Treasureflower
Identify Trailing Treasureflower by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Flowers close at night and on cloudy days.
- Confirm leaf shape: Lanceolate.
- Confirm leaf margin: Entire.
- Confirm flower colour: Orange.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Head.
- In India, compare location records such as Bihar, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh.
- Confirm it sits within the Asteraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Trailing Treasureflower.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Gazania rigens
- Genus
- Gazania
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Found in India
- Bihar, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- LanceolaterecordedLong and narrow, tapering to a point, like a lance head.“Its leaves all basal, numerous, narrow and more or less lanceolate, usually entire, sometimes pennatilobed.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf margin
- EntirerecordedA smooth, unbroken edge with no teeth or notches.“Its leaves all basal, numerous, narrow and more or less lanceolate, usually entire, sometimes pennatilobed.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf surface
- Tomentose (woolly, matted hairs)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Trailing Treasureflower itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Orangerecorded
- Flower arrangement
- HeadrecordedA dense, tight cluster of many small stalkless flowers, packed into a rounded or flat head.“Like all compounds, gazania flowers in flower heads that are often taken for simple flowers.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- AchenerecordedA small, dry, single-seeded fruit that does not split open.“The fruit is an achene, containing several seeds.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Trailing Treasureflower itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
About Trailing Treasureflower
Trailing Treasureflower (Gazania rigens) belongs to the Asteraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
Uses
In practice it is planted as an ornamental.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Trailing Treasureflower belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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