Harmonic mappings with hereditary starlikeness

We study a hereditary starlikeness property for planar harmonic mappings on a disk and on an annulus. While such a property is a common trait of conformal mappings, it may be absent in harmonic mappings. It turns out that a sufficient condition for a harmonic mapping f to possess this hereditary property is to have a harmonic argument - a striking feature of conformal mappings that does not extend to all harmonic mappings.