Asteraceae
Calendula

Calendula officinalis L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 921 (1753)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is W. Medit. It is an annual or biennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome. It is used as animal food and a medicine, has environmental uses and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Spain

Introduced into:

Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Borneo, British Columbia, Bulgaria, California, Canary Is., Central European Russia, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Connecticut, Cook Is., Corse, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Hainan, Honduras, Hungary, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kazakhstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Madeira, Maine, Malaya, Manchuria, Massachusetts, Mauritius, Mexico Southeast, Michigan, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Hampshire, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northern Territory, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Pakistan, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Queensland, Québec, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, South Australia, South European Russia, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tasmania, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Victoria, Vietnam, Washington, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Xinjiang, Yugoslavia

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Barooah, C. & Ahmed, I. (2014). Plant diversity of Assam. A checklist of Angiosperms and Gymnosperms: 1-599. Assam science technology and environment council, India.
  • Benedi, C. & al. (eds.) in Castroviejo, S. & al. (eds.) (2019). Flora Iberica 16(III): 1453-2353. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2006). Flora of North America North of Mexico 19(1): 1-579. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • GCC (2011). Global Compositae Checklist http://compositae.landcareresearch.co.nz/.
  • Ghafoor, A. & al. (2021). Flora of Pakistan 224: 1-310. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi.
  • Kozhevnikov, A.E., Kozhevnikov, Z.V., Kwak, M. & Lee, B.Y. (2019). Illustrated flora of the Primorsky Territory, Russian Far East: 1-1124. National institute of biological resources.
  • Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland.
  • Muer, T., Sauerbier, H. & Cabrara Calixto, F. (2020). Die Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Madeiras: 1-792. Verlag und Versandbuchhandlung Andreas Kleinsteuber.
  • Schäfer, H. (2021). Flora of the Azores a field guide: 1-445. Margraf Publishers GmbH.
  • Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.
  • Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2011). Asteraceae. Flora of China 20-21: 1-992. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).
  • de Salas, MF, Baker, ML (2022). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 1-161. Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. https://flora.tmag.tas.gov.au/resources/census/.
  • von Raab-Straube, E. (ed.) (2011). Compositae. Euro+Med Plantbase. The Euro+Med PlantBase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/query.asp.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Flora of Iraq

  • Chakravarty, Plant Wealth Iraq 1: 93 (1976)
  • Dinsmore in Post, Fl. Syria, ed. 2, 2 : 72 (1933)
  • Guest in Dep. Agr. Iraq Bull. 27: 17 (1933)
  • Husain & Kasim, Cult. Pl. Iraq: 109 (1975)
  • L., Sp. Pl.: 921 (1753)
  • Meikle in Fl. Turkey 5: 171 (1975)
  • Meikle, Fl. Europ. 4: 207 (1976)
  • Rawi & Chakravarty, Dep. Agr. Iraq Bull. 14: 21 (1964)
  • Zhu Shi et al. in Fl. China. 20-21: 819 (2011).

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Cadena-González, A.L. (2010). Study of knowledge on medicinal plants in Zetaquira and Campo Hermoso municipalities (Departamento de Boyacá, Colombia) using quantitative approaches. Faculty of Life Sciences. University of Copenhagen.
  • Cuervo, S. (1999). Origen de las tecnologías agrícolas en el altiplano boyacense. Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas. Tunja. Colombia
  • Florez-Cárdenas, G., Núñez-Izquierdo, O. L., Núñez-Izquierdo, M. M., Ramírez-Mesa, M., & Zusunaga-Quintana, J. A. (2010). 100 Plantas útiles del páramo del Rabanal: Guía para comunidades rurales. Bogotá: Instituto Alexander von Humboldt - CAR - Corpoboyac
  • Granados-Tochoy, J. C., Lastra-Romero, C. A., Correa-Casas, M., & Monsalve, D. (2007). Estudio florístico de la agrobiodiversidad del municipio de Garagoa (Valle de Tenza, Boyacá, Colombia). Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá.
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Castro, C. (Proveedor de metadatos), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). Versión 11.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Kew's Economic Botany collection in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/
  • Lagos-López, M. (2007). Estudio etnobotánico de especies vegetales con propiedades medicinales en seis municipios de Boyacá, Colombia. Actualidades Biológicas, 29(86), 87-96.
  • Toscano-González, J. Y. (2006). Uso tradicional de plantas medicinales en la vereda San Isidro, municipio de San José de Pare-Boyacá: Un estudio preliminar usando técnicas cuantitativas. Acta Biológica Colombiana, 11(2), 137-146.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • (2022). https://doi.org/10.5209/mbot.73688. epublication.
  • Barooah, C. & Ahmed, I. (2014). Plant diversity of Assam. A checklist of Angiosperms and Gymnosperms: 1-599. Assam science technology and environment council, India.
  • GCC (2011). Global Compositae Checklist http://compositae.landcareresearch.co.nz/.
  • Ghazanfar, S.A., Edmondson, J.R. & Hind, D.J.N. (eds.) (2019). Flora of Iraq 6: 1-458. Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform, Baghdad.
  • Kharkevich, S.S. (ed.) (1992). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 6: 1-428. Nauka, Leningrad.
  • Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  • von Raab-Straube, E. (ed.) (2011). Compositae. Euro+Med Plantbase. The Euro+Med PlantBase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/query.asp.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • Garcia, H. (1992). Flora Medicinal de Colombia. Botánica Médica. Segunda Edición. Tercer Mundo Editores. Tomo III.
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • PROTA (2021). Plants Resources of Tropical Africa. https://prota4u.org/database/
  • Plants for malaria, plants for fever: Medicinal species in Latin America, a bibliographic survey: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Brenan, J.P.M. [2694] United Kingdom K002666009 Yes
Christ [s.n.] Italy K000797460 Unknown Type Material Yes
Hubbard, C.E.; Turrill, W.B. [12385] United Kingdom K002666011 Yes
Jenson [410] Iraq K002651141 Yes
Ahlberg, F. [s.n.] Sweden K002666003 Yes
[Bernit] [98] Lebanon K002651137 Yes
Simpson, N.D. [5908] Egypt K002651135 Yes
Simpson, N.D. [2910] Egypt K002651133 Yes
Baty, J. [s.n.] K002660178 Yes
Prior [s.n.] K002660180 Yes
Hooker [s.n.] Morocco K002651727 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Japan K000797463 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002660166 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002660161 Yes
Graves, C.B. [8] K002660162 Yes
Gamble, H. [s.n.] Italy K002666001 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002660177 Yes
s.coll. [H1901] K002660171 Yes
Gaillard, A. [s.n.] Syria K002651139 Yes
Münchhausen, O. [s.n.] Italy K002665999 Yes
Martin, J.S. [s.n.] K002660160 Yes
Bonnet, E.; Willmott, E.A. [s.n.] France K002665997 Yes
Wilczek, A.B.E.; Briquet, J.; Dutoit, D.; Emberger, L. [1020] Morocco K002651725 Yes
Kotschy, K.G.T. [295] Iran K000797462 Unknown Type Material Yes
Horwood, A.R.; Milne-Redhead, E. [s.n.] United Kingdom K002666013 Yes
Gillis, W.T. [14373] K002660168 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002660165 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002660164 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002660172 Yes
Papageovglin, G.; Della, A. [3399] Cyprus K002651132 Yes
Carrier [s.n.] France K001925927 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K002660158 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002660179 Yes
Porta, P.; Rigo, G. [s.n.] Spain K002666002 Yes
[Horter] [32] Iraq K002651140 Yes
Omar, S.; Sahira [34811] Iraq K002651142 Yes
Wyatt, J.W. [019] United Kingdom K002666006 Yes
s.coll. [H920/1924] K002660176 Yes
[Alio] [s.n.] K002660183 Yes
Walker, W. [s.n.] K002660181 Yes
Ball, J. [s.n.] Morocco K002651723 Yes
Roffey, J. [9423] Morocco K002651726 Yes
Simpson, N.D. [4922] Egypt K002651134 Yes
Hitschfeld, H.W. [s.n.] Austria K002665998 Yes
Mtui, E.M. [44] K002660169 Yes
Townsend, C.C. [s.n.] K002666008 Yes
Wright, C.H. [H 1340/31] K002660170 Yes
Bonnet, E.; Willmott, E.A. [s.n.] K002660182 Yes
Brenan, J.P.M. [1428] United Kingdom K002666007 Yes
Nieser [598] K002660159 Yes
Mello-Silva, R.; Frota, T.F.; Frota, P.F. [1838] K002660184 Yes
Jardin [s.n.] K002660174 Yes
Dallimore, W. [s.n.] K002660157 Yes
Dallimore, W. [s.n.] K002660156 Yes
Simpson, N.D. [1162] Egypt K002651136 Yes
Horwood, A.R.; Milne-Redhead, E. [s.n.] United Kingdom K002666012 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002660163 Yes
Ball, J. [s.n.] Morocco K002651724 Yes
Fischer, C.E.C. [s.n.] K002660173 Yes
Thamer [47709] Iraq K002651143 Yes
Willmott, E.A.; Pin, C. [s.n.] France K002665996 Yes
s.coll. [99] Lebanon K002651138 Yes
Brenan, J.P.M. [2716] United Kingdom K002666010 Yes
Wyatt, J.W. [019] K002666005 Yes
Todaro [619] Italy K002666000 Yes

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