Arctotheca
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Arctotheca is a small genus of flowering plants in the aster family
. They are annuals or perennials native to southern Africa. At least two species are widely naturalized
elsewhere, including Australia.
Species include:
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
. They are annuals or perennials native to southern Africa. At least two species are widely naturalized
Introduced species
An introduced species — or neozoon, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its indigenous or native distributional range, and has arrived in an ecosystem or plant community by human activity, either deliberate or accidental...
elsewhere, including Australia.
Species include:
- Arctotheca calendulaArctotheca calendulaArctotheca calendula is a plant commonly known as cape weed, cape dandelion, or cape marigold because it originates from the Cape Province in South Africa...
- capeweed, cape marigold - Arctotheca populifolia - beach pumpkin
- Arctotheca nivea
- Arctotheca repens