Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Lake Mungo World Heritage area, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Lake Mungo World Heritage area, NSW

Seeds. Australian Plant Image Index, photo Murray Fagg, Lake Mungo World Heritage area, NSW

Common Name

Palestine Marigold

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb to 40cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, stem-clasping, 2.5-10cm long, to 20mm wide, flat, hairy to rough, margins mostly wavy and toothed, tips more or less pointed. Flower heads with many yellow ‘petals’ and yellow centres. Flowers single at the ends of the stems.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 681

PlantNET description with line drawings of seeds and photo of dried specimen: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Calendula~palaestina