Arctotis fastuosa Jacq.  

Vernacular name:  Cape daisy, Monarch of the Veld

Nativity: Cape Provinces and Namibia in Southern Africa (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Soft herbs. Leaves in basal rosette, deeply lobed, woolly. Flower head with double row of white or orange ray florets.

Flowering period: March to May

Propagation Methods: Propagated by seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ MFC 

Artemisia annua L.

Vernacular name: Sweet wormwood, Sweet sagewort, Annual wormwood

Nativity: Northern Africa to Asia (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Erect annual herbs, strongly aromatic. Upper leaves sessile and 1-2 pinntisect, lower leaves 3 pinnatisect.

Flowering period: August to October

Propagation Methods: Grown by seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ MRDC 

Bellis perennis L.

Vernacular name:  English daisy

Nativity: Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Perennial herb. Leaves in basal rosette, spatulate, disc floret bright yellow, ray floret white to red as varies in cultivars.

Flowering period: March to May

Propagation Methods: Grown from seed (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ Ta Colony 

Calendula officinalis L.

Vernacular name:  Calendula, Pot Marigold, English Marigold

Nativity: Mediteranean (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Herbs, Early leaves in basal rosette, few on flowering branches, opposite, with obtuse apex. Capitula yellow or orange.

Flowering period: December to March

Propagation Methods: Propagated from seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ MFC 

Centratherum punctatum Cass.

Vernacular name:  Brazilian button flower, Larkdaisy, Brazilian bachelor's button

Nativity: South Tropical America (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Perennial herb. Stem erect, pubescent. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, margin dentate. Flower heads purple.

Flowering period: June to September

Propagation Methods: Grown by seeds (Dave’s Garden)

 Photographed @ MFC 

Chrysanthemum x morifolium (Ramat.) Hemsl.

Vernacular name: Spoon mum, florist's chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum, Hardy garden mum (English); Chandramukhi, Shewanti, Guldaoodi, Guldawari (Hindi)

Nativity: China (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Upright, perennial herbs. Leaves green, simple, lobed, ovate, alternate. Flower head varies in shape, size, colour in different cultivars.

Flowering period: November to February

Propagation Methods: Grown by stem cuttings and root ball division (The Spruce)

Photographed @ MFC 

Coreopsis auriculata L.

Vernacular name:  Eared Tickseed

Nativity:United States of America (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Perennial herb. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, Flower heads on long peduncles, ray florests yellow, involucral bracts biseriate.

Flowering period: March to May

Propagation Methods: Propagated by seeds  (Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, 2021)

Photographed @ MFC 

Cosmos bipinnatus Cav.

Vernacular name:  Pink cosmos, Mexican cosmos

Nativity: Mexico (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Annual herb. Leaves bipinnate and having linear segment. Capitula with yellow disc florets, white to pink ray florets.

Flowering period: January to June

Propagation Methods: Propagated from seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ Ta Colony 

Cosmos sulphureus Cav.

Vernacular name:  Sulphur Cosmos, Orange Cosmos

Nativity: Mexico to Central America (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Annual herbs. Leaves opposite, pinnately divided, lanceolate segmented. Flower heads on long peduncles, with ray floret 3 toothed at apex, orange, disc florets yellow.

Flowering period: May to August

Propagation Methods: Propagated from seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ Yamunotri Bhawan 

Dahlia pinnata Cav.

Vernacular name: Dahlia

Nativity: Mexico(POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Perennial herb having fasciculated tuberous roots. Leaves opposite, pinnate or bipinnate. Flower head varies in shape and colour in different varieties.

Flowering period:  November to May

Propagation Methods: Propagated through tuberous roots, softwood cuttings and seed (Dave’s Garden)

 Photographed @ MFC 

Dimorphotheca pluvialis (L.) Moench.

Vernacular name: African Daisy, Rain Daisy

Nativity: Cape Provinces of South Africa and Namibia (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Annual erect herbs. Leaves narrow, entire or sometime dentate. Disc florets purple at tip, ray florets white.

Flowering period: January to March

Propagation Methods: Multiplied by seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ MFC 

Gaillardia pulchella Foug.

Vernacular name:  Indian Blanket flower, Firewheel

Nativity: U.S.A. to North Mexico (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Annual, herbaceous, upright, pubescent stem. Leaves simple, alternate, lobed or unlobed. Flower head pinwheel like.

Flowering period: March to August

Propagation Methods: Propagated by seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ CBSH 

Gazania rigens (L.) Gaertn.

Vernacular name: Gazania, Treasure flower

Nativity: South Africa (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Herb with decumbent stem. Leaves simple or sometime pinnatisect. Flower heads with orange- brown disc having orange ray floret and black spot toward disc centre.

Flowering period: January to April

Propagation Methods: Propagated by seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ MFC 

Glebionis coronaria (L.) Cas. ex Spach.

Vernacular name: Crown daisy, Garland chrysanthemum, Edible chrysanthemum (English); Gulchini, Guldaudi (Hindi)

Nativity: Mediterranean to Central Asia and Arabian Peninsula. (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Erect annual herbs. Leaves pinnately lobed. Ray florets yellow toward centre and white toward tip, disc florets yellow.

Flowering period: July to September

Propagation Methods: Propagated by  seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ MFC 

Helianthus annuus L.

Vernacular name: Sunflower (English); Surajmukhi (Hindi)

Nativity: Western USA to Mexico (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Tall, robust, annual herbs. Leaves simple, ovate. Capitula large. Disc florets brown, fertile, ray floret orange or yellow, sterile.

Flowering period: March to May

Propagation Methods: Propagated by seed (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ Ta Colony 

Helianthus debilis Nutt.

Vernacular name:  Beach Sunflower, Cucumber leaf Sunflower (English); Chhota Surajmukhi (Hindi)

Nativity: Florida (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Erect herb. Leaves deltate, lobed or unequally dentate. Purplish brown disc and pale yellow ray florets.

Flowering period: March to November

Propagation Methods: Propagated by seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ Yamunotri Bhawan 

Pericallis x hybrida (Regel) B.Nord.

Vernacular name: Cineraria, florist's cineraria, Common ragwort

Nativity: Canary Islands (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves green, simple, lanceolate , lobed with serrated margin. Flower varies in colour from purple, pink to white.

Flowering period: February to April

Propagation Methods: Propagate by seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ Ta Colony 

Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides (Kunth) Cabrera

Vernacular name:  Range- flowered groundsel, Mexican flame vine

Nativity: Mexico to  Tropical South America (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Evergreen, woody vine. Leaves alternate, dark green, arrow-head shaped, margin serrated,. Flower heads orange or red.

Flowering period: June to October

Propagation Methods: Propagated by stem cuttings; and seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ MFC 

Tagetes erecta L.

Vernacular name:  Marigold (English); Genda (Hindi)

Nativity:Mexico to Guatemala (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Annual herbs. Stem angular. Leaves opposite at base, upper leaves altenate, pinnately compound. Flower heads with connate, uniseriate involucral bracts, yellow or orange florets.

Flowering period: September to April

Propagation Methods: Propagate through seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ MFC 

Thymophylla tenuiloba (DC.) Small. 

Vernacular name: Dahlberg daisy

Nativity: U.S.A. to Northeast Mexico (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Annual herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnately lobed. Disc florets yellow, ray florets yellow.

Flowering period:June to August

Propagation Methods: Propagated by seeds (Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ MFC 

Xerochrysum bracteatum (Vent.) Tzvelev.

Vernacular name: Everlasting Flower, Paper Daisy, Strawflower

Nativity:Papua New Guinea, Australia (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Erect herbs. Leaves oblanceolate. Central disc yellow, having minute florets, bracts dry, yellow to pink varies in colour, papery, shiny, surrounding the central disc.

Flowering period: January to March

Propagation Methods: Propagated by seeds (Dave’s Gaden)

Photographed @ MFC 

Zinnia elegans Jacq.

Vernacular name:  Common zinnia

Nativity: Mexico to Central America (POWO, 2019)

Common Characteristics: Erect herb with pubescent stem. Leaves simple, opposite, entire, sessile and cordate.Disc florets yellow to orange, ray floret purplish.

Flowering period: March to October

Propagation Methods:  Propagated through seeds

(Dave’s Garden)

Photographed @ CBSH