pic of plant unable to identify

Euryops pectinatus viridis

I don't think it is a Euryops, I know I suggested it first, but now I've seen the leaves, they look more like Hieracum or hawksbit of some kind.

Bamboo, you were RIGHT as for Euryops... chrysanthemoides. I think it couldn't be Hieracum, bacause of the difference in flower structure. All of the Hieracum flowers are uvular; but this plant has tubular and uvular flowers. Like Euryops.

The picture in my rhs book has the leaf a lot more 'cut' so i dont think it is euryops. is it the agryanthemum[sp?] we thought earlier uma?

Yes, Hieraceum being one of the ligulate composites only has ray florets like Dandelions etc. (a group of daisies I have some knowledge on I must add).

This does look like an Argyranthemum but I am going to plump for a yellow Osteospermum on the basis of the foliage and the back of the capitulum behind the flower head. Probably wrong but I think this is what it is. Incidentally, O. 'Voltage Yellow' has the correct yellow disc florets in the centre too.

Could be Oxford Ragwort too!!! :-)

Oh those composites!!!

its only about 5" tall, is oxford ragwort that small. Fractal, fred has the question posted in other guises so i have left a comment on the other ne :o)

After a little research......It's almost certainly a late flowering Chrysanthemum segetum, the good old fashioned weed of corn fields.

Oh, finally! Fractal, seems you are right as for THOSE composites!
May be Senecio squalidus too!
If the picture is a little clearer!

And I think, Seaburngirl, that it's not argyranthemum because the number and shape of the petals differ.

Is it Arnica montana?

Don't think so, Longleaf, that doesn't have dissected leaves and I think it gets taller anyway.