Felicia

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Felicia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.

Read about Felicia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Felicia (for Herr Felix, a German official). Compositae. Herbs or sub-shrubs, grown under glass or as pot specimens. Leaves alternate, entire or dentate: heads usually long-peduncled, the corolla blue or white, the disk yellow. Much like Aster, from which it differs in having pappus bristles in one series, and in other technical characters.—Forty to 50 species in Afr. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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Species

About 90 species.

Species include:

• Felicia abyssinica
• Felicia alba
• Felicia amelloides
• Felicia bergeriana
• Felicia echinata
• Felicia erigeroides
• Felicia filifolia
• Felicia fruticosa
• Felicia gunillae
• Felicia martinsiana
• Felicia merxmuelleri
• Felicia muricata
• Felicia rosulata
• Felicia tenella

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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