Photos: Inchigeela, Co.Cork |
Corn Marigold Large solitary golden-yellow flowers, long-stalked. Leaves are more/less fleshy, grey-green, deep-toothed, hairless. Smaller stem-leaves. Erect or sprawling plant. Height: 20-50cm. Sandy soil. Roadsides, arable and waste ground. Decreasing as arable weed, now often found sown with grass seed on road banks. Mainly N, E, S Ireland. Similar: Pot Marigold, Calendula officinalis |
Corn Marigold. Inchigeela, Co.Cork. September 2008