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  • COMMON NAME: Field Marigold
  • ARABIC: إقحوان أصفر، عين البقرة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Calendula arvensis L.
  • SYNONYMS: Calendula aegyptiaca
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace (Silt) Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
https://www.floraofqatar.com/calendula_arvensis.htm Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007.

Annual herb, 5-30 cm high, glandular-pubescent, or sometimes viscid. Stems erect or ascending or diffuse, usually much-branched. Lower leaves 2-6 cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide, oblong to narrowly obovate, acute or obtuse, subentire or obscurely denticulate margins; cauline leavves sessile and often auriculate. Flowering heads 0.7-2 cm across. Ray-florets of the same colour. Fruiting heads usually with 3-4 different achene types, sickle-shape, boat-shaped and curved into a ring This species is highly polymorphic or variable. 

Flowering from February to May.
Sandy soil, silt between rocks, fields and orchards.
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