West Coast Municipal District (DC1)
This is a broad mainly lowland municipal region of the Cape (Code DC1) that extends from the coast north of Cape Town to Namaqualand. It includes many of the the mountains of the Cedarberg, Piketberg and a portion of the Roggeveld escarpment. It extends north till the borderline with the Northern Cape - between Garies and Bitterfontein and in line with Lepelfontein near the coast. The West Coast lowlands region is a far smaller region that excludes the Cedarberg mountains and ends further south around Van Rhynsdorp.
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Leucospermum
Heliophila elata
MESEMBRYANTHEMACEAE
APOCYNACEAE
Ruschia langebaanensis
Antimima ventricosa
Lampranthus aureus
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Taxonomy term
Arctotis breviscapa
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From the Latin brevis = "short" and scapa = 'scape' (a flower stem)
Argemone
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American genus but given the Latin and Greek name for another "poppy" by Linnaeus; originally from argemos, a white spot, hence eye cataract, which the plant was believed to cure.
Aristea dichotoma
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From the Greek dichotomus = 'bifurcated', 'branching in two'
Aspalathus
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From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
Asparagus
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From the Greek aspharagos, the name given to the edible Asparagus. A wide-spread genus which is greatly in need of revision. The root-system is an important character in the grouping, but owing to the inadequacy of the existing descriptions and the imperfection of the type specimens, correct identification is often very difficult. The flowering seasons seem to depend very largely on habitat. Some of the spiny species are called Wag-’n-bietjie.
Babiana
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Unusual among South African plants in the name being derived from the vernacular Dutch, "baviaantjie", Afrikaans "bobbejaantjie" or its Cape corruption "babiaantjie". The baboon, bobbejaan, is partial to the corms.
Babiana hirsuta
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From the Latin hirsutus = ‘hairy’
Crotalaria excisa
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From the Latin ‘excisa’ / ‘excisus’ meaning ‘cut out’
Diascia grantiana
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