Flora of North America species comparison

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Osteospermum spinescens
Habit Shrubs, 10–30+ cm (stems becoming thorns).
Leaf

blades cuneate to clavate, 3–12(–20+) × 1–4+ mm, margins entire or distally toothed [lobed], faces ± arachnose, glabrescent, often ± stipitate-glandular distally.
Peduncles

5–15+ mm.
Ray florets

5–8(–13+);

corollas yellow to orange, laminae 4–8(–15+) mm.
Disc florets

12–20+;

corollas yellow to orange, 3–4 mm.
Phyllaries

5–8(–12+), 4–8 mm (margins and tips often stipitate-glandular).
Cypselae

8–10 mm (usually 3-winged).
2n

= 20.

Osteospermum spinescens
Phenology Flowering Mar.
Habitat Disturbed places
Elevation 1800 m (5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NM; Africa [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

As of 2003, Osteospermum spinescens is known in the flora from a single plant that has persisted near Silver City for at least five years.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 383.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Calenduleae > Osteospermum
Sibling taxa
O. ecklonis
Name authority Thunberg: Prodr. Pl. Cap., 166. (1800)
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