Sutera is a genus of annual and perennial flowering plants and shrubs of the family Scrophulariaceae mainly confined to Africa. S cordata was named Manulea cordata in 1800 by Thunberg. Bentham renamed it Chaenostoma in 1836, Kuntze changed it to Sutera in 1891 on the grounds of Synonymy.

Gnarled shrublet to 35cm, toothed leaves, long racemes of pink/mauve flowers with yellow tubes in Summer. Sow Spring.

USDA Zone – 8

Season to Sow – Spring