Osteospermum

Osteospermum (numerous species and derivatives)

os-tee-oh-SPERM-um

Asteraceae

Explanation of name: Generic name means bone-seed.

Natural range: South Africa

Recognition:  Annual bedding plants with spatula-shaped or spoon-shaped leaf blades, and with showy daisy like flowering heads, these often purplish or white (or other colors, including yellow as in ‘Florida’).  The disk flowers usually purple (but yellow in the yellow-flowered selections)

Landscape uses:  A low-growing showy-flowered annual near the sea

Internet sources: http://gardeningbythesea.com/articles/osteospermum/

http://web1.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modop/00002086.html