- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
- ›Sunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies
- ›Asteroideae
- ›marigolds and allies
- ›Calendula
Calendula maroccana
Calendula maroccana is a species of annual flowering plant in the marigold genus Calendula, family Asteraceae. It grows primarily in a subtropical biome, and is endemic to Morocco.
Calendula maroccana also contains the subspecies Calendula maroccana murbeckii.
From the article Calendula maroccana on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
C. maroccana is a spreading perennial, non-succulent herb, standing 20cm-40cm high, with glandular hairs. Foliage is green, with massed, yellow flowers peaking in spring and summer but sporadic throughout the year.The leaves are alternate, 2.5-10cm long to 20mm wide, flat, and hairy to rough in texture, with margins mostly wavy and toothed, and tips more or less pointed. The flower heads, composed of yellow or orange florets with yellow or brown centres, are borne singly at the ends of the stems. They have 2.5–4 cm long outer achenes, 2–2.5 cm long beaks, sometimes crested or toothed. Intermediate achenes are elongated; inner achenes are smaller, curved, with scattered hairs. Calendula maroccana is similar to Calendula. arvensis, but is distinguished by a more slender habit, and a larger flower with tapered involucral bracts.
Range & habitat
Calendula maroccana grows best in scrubland, on well-drained, stony ground or sand. It is not considered to be an endangered species.
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
In medicine
Calendula moroccana contains antioxidant and antibacterial agents that could be used in phytotherapy, pharmaceutical and food sectors.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Medicinal Use”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Calendula maroccana in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1154262.