Dimorphotheca

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Dimorphotheca - South African herbs or subshrubs with usually yellow flowersgenus Dimorphothecaasterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsaster family, Asteraceae, Compositae, family Asteraceae, family Compositae - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinniacape marigold, star of the veldt, sun marigold - any of several South African plants grown for the profusion of usually yellow daisylike flowers and mounds of aromatic foliage

Dimorphotheca

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Dimorphotheca

a genus of plants of the family Compositae. Dimorphotheca are annual or perennial grasses or subshrubs with large anthodia on the ends of the branched stems. The achenes do not have thistledowns. There are seven species in South Africa. Some species are widely cultivated as ornamental annuals, chiefly D. aurantiaca, which has yellow-orange flowers with ligulate florets, and D. pluvialis (D. annua), which has white (purple beneath) flowers with ligulate florets.

Dimorphotheca

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Synonyms for Dimorphotheca

noun South African herbs or subshrubs with usually yellow flowers

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genus Dimorphotheca

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asterid dicot genus
aster family
Asteraceae
Compositae
family Asteraceae
family Compositae
cape marigold
star of the veldt
sun marigold

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