{"id":994,"date":"2009-12-10T19:43:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T05:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowersnewx\/?p=994"},"modified":"2011-07-27T14:02:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T00:02:29","slug":"dimorphotheca-sinuata-glandular-cape-marigold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/994\/dimorphotheca-sinuata-glandular-cape-marigold\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimorphotheca sinuata &#8211; Glandular Cape Marigold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/images\/wildflowers\/plants\/Dimorphotheca_sin_400.jpg\" class=\"post-photo\" alt=\"Dimorphotheca sinuata - Glandular Cape Marigold, African Daisy (yellow flowers)\" title=\"Dimorphotheca sinuata - Glandular Cape Marigold, African Daisy (yellow flowers)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/images\/wildflowers\/plants\/Dimorphotheca_sin_O_400.jpg\" class=\"post-photo\" alt=\"Dimorphotheca sinuata - Glandular Cape Marigold, African Daisy (orange flower)\" title=\"Dimorphotheca sinuata - Glandular Cape Marigold, African Daisy (orange flower)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/images\/wildflowers\/plants\/Dimorphotheca_sin_O_300.jpg\" class=\"post-photo\" alt=\"Dimorphotheca sinuata - Glandular Cape Marigold, African Daisy\" title=\"Dimorphotheca sinuata - Glandular Cape Marigold, African Daisy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"special\">Plant Name<\/p>\n<p><span>Scientific Name:<\/span> <em>Dimorphotheca sinuata<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>Synonym:<\/span> <em>Dimorphotheca aurantiaca<\/em> hort.<\/p>\n<p><span>Common Names:<\/span> Glandular Cape Marigold, African Daisy<\/p>\n<p class=\"special\">Plant Characteristics<\/p>\n<p><span>Duration:<\/span> Annual<\/p>\n<p><span>Growth Habit:<\/span> Herb\/Forb<\/p>\n<p><span>Arizona Native Status:<\/span> Introduced. This spring wildflower is native to Africa, but the seeds are often included in wildflower mixes and it grows well here, so it has become naturalized.<\/p>\n<p><span>Habitat:<\/span> Desert. It grows in sunny, open areas and is most common along roadsides.<\/p>\n<p><span>Flower Color:<\/span> Yellow, Orange, White, Salmon<\/p>\n<p><span>Flowering Season:<\/span> Winter (late), Spring<\/p>\n<p><span>Height:<\/span> To 1 foot (30 cm) tall<\/p>\n<p><span>Description:<\/span> The flower heads have 1 inch (2.5 cm) long rays with black at their base, forming a dark ring around the golden orange, dark-centered, central disk. The leaves are glandular-hairy, often coarsely toothed, and oblong to oblanceolate in shape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"special\">Classification<\/p>\n<p class=\"classify\"><span>Kingdom:<\/span> Plantae &#8211; Plants<br \/>\n<span>Subkingdom:<\/span> Tracheobionta &#8211; Vascular plants<br \/>\n<span>Superdivision:<\/span> Spermatophyta &#8211; Seed plants<br \/>\n<span>Division:<\/span> Magnoliophyta &#8211; Flowering plants<br \/>\n<span>Class:<\/span> Magnoliopsida &#8211; Dicotyledons<br \/>\n<span>Subclass:<\/span> Asteridae<br \/>\n<span>Order:<\/span> Asterales<br \/>\n<span>Family:<\/span> Asteraceae &#8211; Aster family<br \/>\n<span>Genus:<\/span> <em>Dimorphotheca<\/em> Moench &#8211; Cape marigold<br \/>\n<span>Species:<\/span> <em>Dimorphotheca sinuata<\/em> DC. &#8211; glandular Cape marigold<\/p>\n<p class=\"special\">More About This Plant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plants.usda.gov\/java\/county?state_name=Arizona&#038;statefips=04&#038;symbol=DISI4\">Arizona County Distribution Map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View photographs and a description of the plant Dimorphotheca sinuata, commonly known as Glandular Cape Marigold or African Daisy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,52,31,17,25,6,165,4,224,10,223,7,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annuals","category-asteraceae-aster-family","category-desert-plants","category-herbs-and-forbs","category-introduced-wildflowers-and-plants","category-orange-arizona-flowers","category-orange-flowers","category-pink-arizona-flowers","category-spring-blooming-plants","category-white-arizona-flowers","category-winter-blooming-plants","category-yellow-arizona-flowers","category-yellow-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}