Megan Redmond, CC BY-SA, via GBIF · observed growing wild

Felicia amelloides (DC.) Voss

Blue Daisy, Blue Marguerite, margarida-azul

Climate known 10 photographs

Every figure on this page is derived from public data by a stated rule and says its source; nothing here is written by a person or a model, except the Wikipedia passage, which is quoted and marked as such. How it is made.

Summary

Felicia amelloides, the blue daisy bush, blue felicia or kingfisher daisy, is a hairy, soft, usually perennial, evergreen plant, in the family Asteraceae. It can be found along the southern coast of South Africa. It grows as groundcover, and is cultivated as an ornamental, where it was introduced in Europe in the middle of the 18th century.

Text from Wikipedia, “Felicia amelloides”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Felicia

The name Felicia derives from the Latin adjective felix, meaning "happy, lucky", though in the neuter plural form felicia it literally means "happy things" and often occurred in the phrase tempora felicia, "happy times". The sense of it as a feminine personal name appeared in post-Classical use and is of uncertain origin. It is associated with saints, poets, astronomical objects, plant genera, fictional characters, and animals, especially cats.

Text from Wikipedia, “Felicia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Asteraceae

Described by

(DC.) Voss

Native to

Cape Provinces

Wild records

189 in range· 64 open

At a glance

Warmest month

24°C

Feb, mean day; nights 18 °C (CHELSA)

Rain

674mm/yr

12 wet months · peak Aug 80 mm (CHELSA)

Light

16–49DLI

mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)

In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person

Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (October to May in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 674 mm a year, wettest August at 80 mm, driest February at 36 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 49 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 6.9 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Agathaea amelloides (L.) DC.; Agathaea amelloides var. amelloides; Agathaea coelestis Cass.; Agathaea rotundifolia (Thunb.) Nees; Aster capensis Less. and 11 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (October to May in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (502 mm of 674 mm) takes 8 months, April to November. Mean temperature moves 7.3 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: October to May.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 674 mm a year, wettest August at 80 mm, driest February at 36 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

674 mm a year at the habitat, 502 mm of it April to November. Wettest month August at 80 mm, driest February at 36 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 538 mm to 1101 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 49 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 49 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 15, the highest 90th-percentile month 53).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 6.9 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 6.9 °C, the absolute minimum 4.5 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 35.1 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 10.6 °C in July (across the envelope cells 6.0 °C to 12.4 °C), warmest day 23.6 °C in February (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 6.9 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 58 to 63% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 98 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale

Figures by month

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day °C	23 / 20–27	24 / 20–27	23 / 19–26	21 / 18–23	19 / 17–21	17 / 15–19	16 / 15–19	16 / 15–20	18 / 15–22	19 / 16–23	21 / 18–24	22 / 19–26
Night °C	17 / 16–19	18 / 16–19	17 / 15–18	15 / 12–16	13 / 10–15	11 / 7–13	11 / 6–12	11 / 7–13	12 / 9–13	13 / 11–15	15 / 13–16	16 / 15–18
Rain mm	41 / 23–75	36 / 20–63	50 / 27–85	66 / 42–92	62 / 27–135	65 / 25–171	66 / 27–184	80 / 42–150	53 / 28–103	57 / 38–93	53 / 30–95	45 / 26–93
DLI	48 / 43–53	43 / 39–47	35 / 33–38	26 / 25–28	19 / 18–21	16 / 15–18	18 / 16–19	23 / 22–24	31 / 30–32	39 / 36–42	46 / 42–49	49 / 44–52
RH %	62 / 58–64	63 / 58–65	63 / 58–65	62 / 57–64	60 / 54–63	59 / 52–61	58 / 52–60	60 / 55–61	61 / 57–62	61 / 57–63	61 / 57–63	61 / 57–63

Each figure is the median across the 98 grid cells holding the 187 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2478:3969 (-33.925, 18.475). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 4.5 °C, 1st-percentile night 6.9 °C, 99th-percentile day 35.1 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 98 distinct grid cells holding the 187 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2478:3969 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -34.00_18.750, lapse-corrected -189 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 20 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeCape Provinces

Kew's description“subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-33.987, 18.466 · in the densest population, 124 records (66% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 189 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 64 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 2 km away. 79 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 189 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA, iNaturalist via GBIF (4); Hervé Rey, CC BY-SA, via GBIF (3); Mpho Mativandlela, CC BY-SA, via GBIF.

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Felicia amelloides, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

The Host Specialization of Erysiphe cichoracearum from Zinnia, Phlox and Cucurbits

J. A. Schmitt (1955) · Mycologia

The Host Specialization of Erysiphe Cichoracearum from Zinnia, Phlox and Cucurbits

J. A. Schmitt (1955) · Mycologia

Occurrence of Sclerotinia Stem Rot of Osteospermum sp., Felicia amelloides, and Ranunculus asiaticus in Argentina

E. R. Wright, M. C. Rivera, Giulia Chiesa, D. Morisigue (2005) · Plant Disease

First Report of White Mold Caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on Blue Marguerite (Felicia amelloides) in Italy

A. Garibaldi, A. Minuto, M. L. Gullino (2004) · Plant Disease

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