Calendula officinalis
Pot Marigold, Garden Marigold, Hen-and-chickens, Calendula, Garden-marigold, Marigold, Ruddles, Scotch marigold, Scotch-marigold, Scottish-marigold, Pot-marigold, Common Pot Marigold, English Marigold, Garden-pot Marigold, Lus buí Albanach, Calendula officinalis
Description
An annual or biennial ornamental herb, with a compact growth habit and bushy form. Easy to grow, it is prized for its excellent, staggered flowering, producing a profusion of blooms that add touches of warm, bright colours to terraces or balconies, in pots and planters, as well as in flowerbeds and borders where it creates dense ground cover; it is also suitable for use in mixed plantings with other ornamental plants, as well as for intercropping with vegetable crops.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Calendula
- Species
- Calendula officinalis
Synonyms (8)
- Calendula aurantiaca
- Calendula eriocarpa
- Calendula hydruntina
- Calendula prolifera
- Calendula ranunculodes
- Calendula santamariae
- Calendula sinuata
- Caltha officinalis
