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Calendula officinalis (Pot Marigold) |
Calendula officinalis (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 officinalis L. Published in Sp. Pl. 921 (1753) | 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) : | Pot Marigold, English Marigold | Maltese name(s) : | Suffejra tal-ġonna | Status for Malta : | Species that was introduced in Malta after year 1492 and spreads to form established, non-invasive populations. It may become become invasive | Frequency : | Very Common Common Frequent
Scarce Rare Very rare Extinct
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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 : | Jan-Jun | Colour of Flowers: | Yellow or Orange |
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Species Description and Distribution |
Habitat in Europe: |
Cultivated for ornament |
Preferred habitat in Malta: |
Ornamental plant which have been seen escaping in sites close to its cultivated origin such as in road margins, fields, disturbed ground and even garigue |
Botanical Description: |
Annual to perennial, woody only at the base. Stems (17-)20-50(-10) cm, erect, diffuse or procumbent, much-branched, generally leafy almost to apex. Leaves (3-)7-14(-17) x 1-4(-6) cm, oblanceolate, narrowly obovate, oblong or spathulate, shortly acute or obtuse, glandular-pubescent to sparsely arachnoid-floccose, usually subentire to obscurely repand-dentate. Capitula usually 4-7 cm in diameter. Ligules often 2 cm, at least twice as long as the involucral bracts, yellow or orange; tubular florets usually more or less concolorous with ligules, sometimes brownish. Capitula in fruit with or without an outer row of incurved (or rarely patent) narrowly beaked achenes 2-2.5 cm, alternating with much shorter, cymbiform (rarely 3-winged) achenes. |
Distributional range: |
throughout Europe locally naturalized in S. & W. Europe and a frequent casual elsewhere. |
Native region outside Europe: |
(Origin unknown.) |
Distributional map in Europe and the Mediterranean region (2018):
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Occurrences in Europe. (from Flora Europaea pre year 1993): |
Introduced in  the Azores, Britain (excl. Northern Ireland and Channel islands), Spain (incl. Andorra but excl. the Balaerics), Italy (excl. Sicily and Sardignia) |
Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region. (Euro+Med Checklist, 2017) -
Country codes |
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