DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Gazania (Gazania rigens/G. splendens)
Invasive Assessment | Impact Assessment
| Scientific name: | Gazania rigens (L.) Gaertn, Gazania splendens |  Gazania flower |
Common Name: | Gazania | |
Status: |  | |
Habitat: | In its native range, in southern Africa, it is a strand plant [occurs up to the edge of stabilised dunes or inland vegetation] (Ross, 1972) and is a common sand coloniser (Pooley, 1988). It has naturalised in UK (GBIF, 2007); Bolivia, Ecuador and Sweden (MBG, 2007). And inhabits roadsides and coastal waste land, usually in sandy soils in NZ (Webb et al, 1988). In Australia, it is naturalised in NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic (Blood, 2002) and WA (WAH, 2006), appearing to be confined to coastal dunes (Groves et al, 2005; Faithfull, 2006; D. Cooke, 2007, pers. comm., 23rd March). |
 Gazania plants |  Gazania plant |
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This document was last reviewed on 24/09/2008