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Calendula arvensis subsp arvensis (Field Marigold) |
Calendula arvensis subsp. arvensis (ASTERACEAE.)
Images for this profile are taken from the Maltese Islands at or after year 2000. |
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| Nomenclature and Basic Information |
Species name : |
Calendula arvensis subsp. arvensisL.
Published in Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1303 (1763) | Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.) |
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Plant Family : | Asteraceae
Bercht. & J.Presl (=Compositae) (The Daisy or Sunflower Family)
125 species from the Asteraceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands. | English name(s) : | Field Marigold | Maltese name(s) : | Suffejra tar-raba | Status for Malta : | Indigenous. Present on the Maltese islands before man | Frequency : | Very Common
Common Frequent Scarce Rare
Very rare Extinct
| Growth form : |
Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: THEROPHYTE (annuals)
Germination [info]: Dicotyledon | Legal Protection [link]: | Not Protected by Law (LN200/2011 or LN311/2006) | Red List (1989) : | Not listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands | Flowering Time : | Nov-May | Colour of Flowers: | Yellow |
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| Species Description and Distribution |
Habitat in Europe: |
Cultivated and waste ground |
Preferred habitat in Malta: |
Arable land, Fallow fields, wasteland with soil. |
Botanical Description: |
Annual (5-)15-25(-30)cm, often thinly arachnoid-floccose, erect or diffuse, usually much-branched. Leaves (1-)3-8(-10) x 0.4-1.4(-2) cm, pubescent or thinly floccose, oblong or narrowly obovate, acute or obtuse, with subentire or obscurely denticulate margins. Capitula 1-2(-3.5) cm in diameter. Ligules yellow or orange, usually less than 1.8 cm, often distinctly exceeding, but not twice as long as involucral bracts. Tubular florets concolorous with ligules or sometimes brown or violet-purple. Capitula in fruit usually with an outer row of incurved, narrowly beaked achenes 1.3-2 cm, alternating with broadly cymbiform achenes 0.6-1 cm, the beaked achenes occasionally up to 2.5 cm and conspicuous (var. malacitana (Boiss. & Reuter) Coutinho) or rarely wholly replaced by cymbiform or annular achenes. |
Chromosome number: |
2n=44 |
Distributional range: |
S. & S.C. Europe naturalized or casual further north |
Occurrences in Europe.
(from Flora Europaea pre year 1993): |
Albania, the Azores, the Balaeric Islands, Corse, Crete, France (incl. Monaco and Channel Islands but excluding Corse), Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Spain (incl. Andorra but excl. the Balaerics), Hungary, Italy (excl. Sicily and Sardignia), ex-Jugoslavia, Portugal, Romania, Russia and former USSR, Sardinia, Sicily and/or Malta, Turkey (European part), Introduced in Bulgaria, Poland |
Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(Euro+Med Checklist, 2017) -
Country codes |
NA |
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