is an annual herb belonging to the daisy family of Asteraceae.

[1] It is a pioneer plant of disturbed ground and usually grows to a height of only 30 cm.

It flowers throughout the rainy season and, in mild weather with late rains, well into the autumn months.

In his 1912 contribution to Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie, the enigmatic German botanist Reinhold Conrad Muschler describes Ursinia engleriana, found near Okahandja in South West Africa, as a new species of African composite.

[2] The genus was named in honor of German scholar Johannes Heinrich Ursinus (1608-1667).