Calendula stellataCav.

WFO wfo-0000116494 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Calendula stellata, photographed by Nasser Halaweh
fig. a Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-02-20 / obs. 33071496
Calendula stellata, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. b Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182596247
Calendula stellata, photographed by Martin Jung
fig. c Martin Jung, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45884228
Calendula stellata, photographed by Nasser Halaweh
fig. d Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33071516
Calendula stellata, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. e Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182596245
Calendula stellata, photographed by Nasser Halaweh
fig. f Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33071509
Calendula stellata, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. g Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182596235

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Calendula stellata is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Sicilia AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaSicilia
Native distribution of Calendula stellata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Sicilia SIC EUROPE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Calendula algeriensis Boiss. & Reut.
  • Calendula asterias Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Calendula bicolor var. cossonii Quézel & Santa
  • Calendula bicolor var. faurelii Quézel & Santa
  • Calendula bicolor var. odettei Quézel & Santa
  • Calendula cornuta Poir.
  • Calendula forskohleana hort. ex Steud.
  • Calendula macroptera (Rouy) H.J.Cose
  • Calendula sicula Poir.
  • Calendula sicula Willd.
  • Calendula sicula Cirillo ex Balb.
  • Calendula spatulata Hoffmanns.
  • Calendula stellata var. stellata
  • Calendula vidalii Vidal y Lopez
  • Calendula vidalii Pau
  • Calendula vidalii A.W.Hill
  • Caltha stellata (Cav.) Moench

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.