''Euryops chrysanthemoides'' (with the common names African bush daisy or bull's-eye) is a small shrub native to

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that is also grown as a horticultural specimen in

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regions around the world.

Description

It is a compact, densely branched, leafy, evergreen shrub, 0.5 to 2m in height. The leaf surface is smooth and green. The species was moved to ''Euryops'' from the genus ''Gamolepis'' on the basis of chromosome counts.

Distribution

''Euryops chrysanthemoides'' is indigenous to

southern Africa Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa. No definition is agreed upon, but some groupings include the United Nations geoscheme for Africa, United Nations geoscheme, the intergovernmental Southern African Development Community, and ...

, where it occurs in the

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, along the coast and inland, to

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and

Eswatini Eswatini, formally the Kingdom of Eswatini, also known by its former official names Swaziland and the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by South Africa on all sides except the northeast, where i ...

. It is usually found on forest edges, in riverine bush and in ravines, as well as in coastal scrub, grassland and disturbed areas. It is a ruderal weed in

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, although it is not invasive in all places where it is cultivated or has naturalized.

References

Flora of Southern Africa chrysanthemoides Ruderal species Plants described in 1968 {{Senecioneae-stub