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Scientific name Common name Features Vegetation type(s)
Aponogeton distachyos Cape pond weed Easy to grow
Edible
Fast-growing
Fragrant
Suitable for wet sites
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos Elgin Shale Fynbos
Arctotheca calendula Capeweed Attracts butterflies
Easy to grow
Good for coastal areas
Pioneer species
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos Elgin Shale Fynbos Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Arctotis stoechadifolia Silver arctotis Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
This will attract honey bees
Artemisia afra Wormwood Easy to grow
Fragrant
It provides medicinal value
This will attract honey bees
Brunsvigia josephinae Candelabra lily Attracts butterflies
Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Good potplant
It provides medicinal value
This is a bird-friendly species
Will attract sunbirds
Canthium inerme Cape Date Easy to grow
Edible
It provides medicinal value
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Carissa macrocarpa Num-num Easy to grow
Edible
Fragrant
It provides medicinal value
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Carpanthea pomeridiana carpanthea Easy to grow
Fast-growing
Good potplant
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Carpobrotus acinaciformis Elands sour fig Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Edible
It provides medicinal value
Pioneer species
This will attract honey bees
Will attract monkey beetles
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Carpobrotus edulis Sour fig Easy to grow
Edible
It provides medicinal value
Pioneer species
This will attract honey bees
Will attract monkey beetles
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos Elgin Shale Fynbos
Chasmanthe aethiopica Small cobra lily Easy to grow
It provides medicinal value
Suitable for clay soil
Suitable for sandy soil
This is a bird-friendly species
Will attract sunbirds
Cape Flats Dune Strandveld Elgin Shale Fynbos Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Chasmanthe floribunda Cobra lily Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
It provides medicinal value
Suitable for clay soil
Suitable for sandy soil
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Chasmanthe floribunda 'Duckittii' Yellow cobra lily Easy to grow
Suitable for clay soil
Suitable for sandy soil
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Cliffortia ferruginea Glossy cliffortia Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
It provides medicinal value
Suitable for wet sites
Cotula turbinata Easy to grow
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos Elgin Shale Fynbos Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Cotyledon orbiculata Pig's ear Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Good potplant
It provides medicinal value
Suitable for clay soil
Suitable for sandy soil
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Cape Flats Dune Strandveld
Crassula dejecta doily crassula Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Fragrant
Good potplant
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Crassula glomerata Easy to grow
Good potplant
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos Elgin Shale Fynbos
Dais cotinifolia Pompon tree Easy to grow
This will attract honey bees
Dianthus albens Wild pink Easy to grow
This will attract honey bees
Dietes iridioides Wood iris Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
It provides medicinal value
This will attract honey bees
Wind resistant
Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Diosma oppositifolia bitter buchu Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Fragrant
It provides medicinal value
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Dodonaea angustifolia Sand olive Attracts butterflies
Can be used as a hedge
Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
It provides medicinal value
Pioneer species
This is a bird-friendly species
Erica abietina Red Heath Attracts butterflies
Easy to grow
Good potplant
Sensitive roots
Will attract sunbirds
Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos
Erica cerinthoides Fire Heath Easy to grow
Good potplant
Suitable for clay soil
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Erica coccinea Tassel Heath Easy to grow
Good potplant
Sensitive roots
Suitable for clay soil
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Erica curviflora Water Heath Easy to grow
Good potplant
Sensitive roots
Suitable for wet sites
Will attract sunbirds
Erica margaritaceae Easy to grow
Fragrant
Suitable for sandy soil
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Erica plukenetii Easy to grow
Good potplant
Sensitive roots
Will attract sunbirds
Erica turgida Easy to grow
Good potplant
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Erica verticillata Attracts butterflies
Easy to grow
Good potplant
Sensitive roots
Suitable for clay soil
Suitable for sandy soil
Suitable for wet sites
This will attract honey bees
Will attract monkey beetles
Will attract sunbirds
Will attract the Orange-breasted Sugarbird
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Eriocephalus africanus Wild rosemary Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Edible
Fragrant
It provides medicinal value
Pioneer species
This will attract honey bees
Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Euphorbia tuberosa milk-ball, wild charlock Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Good potplant
Suitable for sandy soil
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Felicia aethiopica Wild aster Easy to grow
Suitable for sandy soil
This will attract honey bees
Freylinia lanceolata honey bell-bush Attracts butterflies
Can be used as a hedge
Easy to grow
Fragrant
Suitable for wet sites
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Gazania rigens var. rigens Clumping Gazania Easy to grow
Suitable for sandy soil
This will attract honey bees
Gazania rigens var. uniflora Treasure flower Easy to grow
Pioneer species
Suitable for sandy soil
This will attract honey bees
Halleria lucida Easy to grow
Edible
Good potplant
It provides medicinal value
Pioneer species
Suitable for clay soil
Suitable for sandy soil
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Imperata arundinacea Attracts butterflies
Easy to grow
Suitable for sandy soil
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Imperata cylindrica Sword grass Attracts butterflies
Easy to grow
Edible
Fast-growing
It can be used as a construction material
It provides medicinal value
Suitable for sandy soil
Suitable for wet sites
Cape Flats Dune Strandveld
Kiggelaria africana Wild peach Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
It can be used as a construction material
It provides medicinal value
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Lachenalia reflexa Yellow soldier Easy to grow
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Lampranthus glaucus Yellow noon flower Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Good potplant
This will attract honey bees
Will attract monkey beetles
Atlantis Sand Fynbos Boland Granite Fynbos Cape Flats Dune Strandveld Cape Flats Sand Fynbos Hangklip Sand Fynbos Lourensford Alluvium Fynbos Swartland Alluvium Fynbos Swartland Granite Renosterveld Swartland Shale Renosterveld
Lampranthus reptans Creeping Brightfig Easy to grow
Good potplant
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos Elgin Shale Fynbos
Leonotis leonurus Lion's Tail Attracts butterflies
Easy to grow
Edible
It provides medicinal value
Pioneer species
Suitable for clay soil
Suitable for sandy soil
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Elgin Shale Fynbos
Melianthus major Touch-me-not Easy to grow
Fragrant
It provides medicinal value
Suitable for clay soil
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos
Metalasia muricata White Bristle Bush Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Edible
Fragrant
It provides medicinal value
Pioneer species
Suitable for sandy soil
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos Elgin Shale Fynbos
Mimetes cucullatus Red pagoda Easy to grow
Good potplant
Sensitive roots
Suitable for clay soil
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Ornithogalum thyrsoides Chincherinchee Easy to grow
Good potplant
It provides medicinal value
Pioneer species
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Osteospermum moniliferum Tickberry Attracts butterflies
Can be used as a hedge
Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Edible
Good for coastal areas
It provides medicinal value
Pioneer species
This will attract honey bees
Will attract monkey beetles
Cape Flats Dune Strandveld Cape Flats Sand Fynbos Elgin Shale Fynbos
Pelargonium betulinum Camphor-scented pelargonium Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Fast-growing
Fragrant
Good for coastal areas
Good potplant
It provides medicinal value
Pioneer species
This will attract honey bees
Wind resistant
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Pelargonium capitatum Rose-scented pelargonium Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Fragrant
Good potplant
It provides medicinal value
Pioneer species
Suitable for clay soil
Suitable for sandy soil
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos Elgin Shale Fynbos
Pelargonium crispum lemon-scented pelargonium Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Fragrant
Good potplant
Pelargonium cucullatum Hooded-leaf pelargonium Attracts butterflies
Easy to grow
Fast-growing
Fragrant
Good potplant
It provides medicinal value
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Plectranthus neochilus Lobster bush Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Edible
Pioneer species
This will attract honey bees
Podalyria sericea Silver sweet pea bush Easy to grow
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Dune Strandveld Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Prionium serratum palmiet Easy to grow
Edible
Fast-growing
It can be used as a construction material
Suitable for wet sites
Protea eximia Easy to grow
Suitable for sandy soil
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Will attract the Cape Sugarbird
Protea neriifolia Oleander-leaf protea Can be used as a hedge
Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Fast-growing
Sensitive roots
Suitable for clay soil
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Protea repens Sugarbush Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
It provides medicinal value
Suitable for clay soil
Suitable for sandy soil
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Psoralea pinnata Fountain bush Easy to grow
Fragrant
Suitable for wet sites
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Salvia africana-caerulea Blue sage Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Edible
Fragrant
It provides medicinal value
This will attract honey bees
Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Searsia crenata Dune crow-berry Attracts butterflies
Can be used as a hedge
Easy to grow
Suitable for sandy soil
This will attract honey bees
Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Seriphium plumosum Kooigoed Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Edible
Fast-growing
It can be used as a construction material
It provides medicinal value
Pioneer species
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Serruria glomerata Cluster Spiderhead Easy to grow
Fragrant
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Silene undulata dream root Easy to grow
Fragrant
It provides medicinal value
Tecoma capensis Cape honeysuckle Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
It provides medicinal value
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Will attract sunbirds
Tetragonia fruticosa Churl bush Can be used as a hedge
Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Pioneer species
This will attract honey bees
Tylecodon paniculatus Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Good potplant
Will attract sunbirds
Cape Flats Dune Strandveld
Vachellia sieberiana var. woodii Paperbark acacia Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Edible
Fragrant
It can be used as a construction material
It provides medicinal value
This is a bird-friendly species
This will attract honey bees
Wachendorfia paniculata Kofffiepit Easy to grow
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos Elgin Shale Fynbos
Watsonia borbonica Pink watsonia Easy to grow
Good potplant
This will attract honey bees
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Watsonia marginata Broad-leaf watsonia Drought-resistant
Easy to grow
Good potplant
This will attract honey bees
Cape pond weed

Aponogeton distachyos

Capeweed

Arctotheca calendula

Silver arctotis

Arctotis stoechadifolia

Wormwood

Artemisia afra

Candelabra lily

Brunsvigia josephinae

Cape Date

Canthium inerme

Num-num

Carissa macrocarpa

carpanthea

Carpanthea pomeridiana

Elands sour fig

Carpobrotus acinaciformis

Sour fig

Carpobrotus edulis

Small cobra lily

Chasmanthe aethiopica

Cobra lily

Chasmanthe floribunda

Yellow cobra lily

Chasmanthe floribunda 'Duckittii'

Glossy cliffortia

Cliffortia ferruginea

Cotula turbinata

Pig's ear

Cotyledon orbiculata

doily crassula

Crassula dejecta

Crassula glomerata

Pompon tree

Dais cotinifolia

Wild pink

Dianthus albens

Wood iris

Dietes iridioides

bitter buchu

Diosma oppositifolia

Sand olive

Dodonaea angustifolia

Red Heath

Erica abietina

Fire Heath

Erica cerinthoides

Tassel Heath

Erica coccinea

Water Heath

Erica curviflora

Erica margaritaceae

Erica plukenetii

Erica turgida

Erica verticillata

Wild rosemary

Eriocephalus africanus

milk-ball, wild charlock

Euphorbia tuberosa

Wild aster

Felicia aethiopica

honey bell-bush

Freylinia lanceolata

Clumping Gazania

Gazania rigens var. rigens

Treasure flower

Gazania rigens var. uniflora

Halleria lucida

Imperata arundinacea

Sword grass

Imperata cylindrica

Wild peach

Kiggelaria africana

Yellow soldier

Lachenalia reflexa

Yellow noon flower

Lampranthus glaucus

Creeping Brightfig

Lampranthus reptans

Lion's Tail

Leonotis leonurus

Touch-me-not

Melianthus major

White Bristle Bush

Metalasia muricata

Red pagoda

Mimetes cucullatus

Chincherinchee

Ornithogalum thyrsoides

Tickberry

Osteospermum moniliferum

Camphor-scented pelargonium

Pelargonium betulinum

Rose-scented pelargonium

Pelargonium capitatum

lemon-scented pelargonium

Pelargonium crispum

Hooded-leaf pelargonium

Pelargonium cucullatum

Lobster bush

Plectranthus neochilus

Silver sweet pea bush

Podalyria sericea

palmiet

Prionium serratum

Protea eximia

Oleander-leaf protea

Protea neriifolia

Sugarbush

Protea repens

Fountain bush

Psoralea pinnata

Blue sage

Salvia africana-caerulea

Dune crow-berry

Searsia crenata

Kooigoed

Seriphium plumosum

Cluster Spiderhead

Serruria glomerata

dream root

Silene undulata

Cape honeysuckle

Tecoma capensis

Churl bush

Tetragonia fruticosa

Tylecodon paniculatus

Paperbark acacia

Vachellia sieberiana var. woodii

Kofffiepit

Wachendorfia paniculata

Pink watsonia

Watsonia borbonica

Broad-leaf watsonia

Watsonia marginata