Calendula suffruticosa
Calendula suffruticosa
Ssp fulgida: Öküzgözü
Erect or sprawling perennial, stems usually much branched, 20-50 cm, normally woody for some distance above base. Leaves linear-lanceolate, oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, 2-7 x 0,5-1,5 cm, diminishing upwards, and leaving a long, leafless peduncle, glandular-pubescent or sometimes thinly arachnoid-floccose, margins remotely and rather irregularly sinuate-dentate. Capitula 2,5-5 cm broad ; ligulate flowers bright yellow, more than 2 x as long as phyllaries, tubular flowers yellow or orange. Achenes heteromorphic, glabrous or thinly pubescent; Beaked achenes 1,5-3 cm, very conspicuous, often stellately patent. Fl. 3-6. Dry stony hillsides and rock crevices, s.l.-525 m.
S.Spain, S. Portugal, S. Italy, Sicily, Malta, N.W. Africa, often very local and . scattered. W. Medit. element.
