WorldFloraDB - Felicia filifolia

Characteristics

Much-branched shrub or dwarf shrub, up to 1.5 m high. Leaves alternate, in fascicles on short-shoots or spread out on long-shoots, filiform and needle-like, entire, glabrous or woolly-pubescent in leaf-axils, somewhat succulent. Capitula radiate, solitary (ray florets sometimes absent in subsp. bodkinii and subsp. schaeferi); peduncles, if present, glabrous; involucral bracts in 3 or 4 rows, imbricate, glabrous. Ray florets bright or pale violet, rarely white. Disc florets yellow. Flowering time all year. Pappus of barbellate bristles of different lengths, present in both ray and disc florets. Cypselae obovate to elliptic, long-hairy (villous).

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Much-branched shrub or dwarf shrub, up to 1 m tall. Leaves alternate, in clusters on short shoots or spread out on long shoots, needle-like, glabrous or woolly-pubescent in leaf-axils. Flowerheads radiate, (ray florets occasionally absent in subsp. bodkinii (Compton) Grau and subsp. schaeferi (Dinter) Grau), solitary; peduncles, if present, glabrous; involucral bracts in 3 or 4 rows, imbricate; ray florets bright or pale violet, rarely white; disc florets yellow. Cypselas long-haired; pappus bristles of different lengths.

Like F. fruticosa but the leaves filiform and needle-like.

Life form

Growth form

shrub

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

1.0

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

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Fruiting months

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Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

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Environment

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity	-
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	medicinal
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Mode	-
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	stratification
Minimum temperature (C°)	-7
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-