Cineraria saxifraga DC.

Perennial subshrub to 1 m tall, glabrous. Stems erect, branched. Leaves round to kidney-shaped, to 1 cm long, to 1 cm wide, lobed at apex, long-petiolate. Capitula few to many in leafless corymbs, to 1 cm across, long-stalked; mostly summer. Florets yellow. Achenes 2-3 mm long, with thickened hairy margins, hairy on faces.

South Africa

Source: Jeanes, J. (2002). Asteraceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

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kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Asterales
family       Asteraceae
genus        Cineraria L.