Typically sun-loving shrubs, perennials from South & Eastern Africa into Arabia. Daisy-like yellow, showy flowerheads often through much of the year. In the UK, although grown as half-hardies, they can persist in sheltered gardens, or a a sheltered position, on well-drained soils. Good for pots.
As with all 'daisy-like' flowers, the disc-flowers in the centre of the flowerhead produce nectar and pollen that are attractive to insects, such as bees, hoverflies and butterflies. The fact that these Michaelmas daisies are not all restricted to open, sunny sites helps to extend late-summer pollinator provision into shadier realms.