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Calendula arvensis
Also called Wild Marigold
Field marigold (Calendula arvensis) is a wild, annual or biennial herb in the daisy family with bright yellow to orange flower heads, native to southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. It grows best in full sun and poor, well-drained soil, and is grown for its cheerful wildflower look rather than as a formal bedding plant.
Calendula arvensis is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name field marigold. It is native to central and southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East and it is known across the globe as an introduced species.
Calendula arvensis is an annual or biennial herb 10 to 50 cm (3.9 to 19.7 in) tall. The leaves are lance-shaped and borne on petioles from the slender, hairy stem. The inflorescence is a single flower head up to four centimeters wide with bright yellow to yellow-orange ray florets around a center of yellow disc florets. The fruit is an achene which can take any of three shapes, including ring-shaped, that facilitate different methods of dispersal.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calendula arvensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
