Dimorphotheca is a southern African genus, belonging to the family Asteraceae, and is found in South Africa (Western and Northern Cape) and Namibia. It consists of 15 species. The genus name Dimorpotheca means fruits with two forms and is derived from Greek dis, meaning two, morphe, shape or form and theka, a fruit, referring to the different kinds of seeds produced by the ray and the disc florets in some species, where the fruits formed by the ray florets are wingless and stick-like and the fruits formed by the disc florets are flattened and 2-winged.

Dimorphotheca dregei, synonymously known as Osteospermum dregei, is a South African endemic flowering perennial found in the Northern Cape and Western Cape provinces. Dimorphotheca dregei is an evergreen perennial groundcover with green foliage. Growing to 30cm tall, from mid-winter to late spring it produces snowy white flowers.