Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, 115 Packe Street
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 422/92
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
31-DEC-1992
Start date:
1992-12-31
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Ecological District:
Low Plains
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
M35 81- 43- (WGS84 -43.515398 172.647362)
Habitat:
Garden and surrounds. Spontaneous.
Notes:
Aromatic herb with erect to sprawling stems and soft slightly succulent leaves. Capitula erect, the ray florets closing at night and in cold weather. Abundant all over garden and in driveway. Adventive. Rays usually orange, 2.2-2.6cm long, sometimes yellow, oblanceolate. "Marigolds" have not been planted for some years here but plants grow spontaneously very abundantly. Yellow-flowered plants are scattered but fairly common. See specimen B (yellow flowers). Specimen A (orange flowers). Sheets A and B.