Dimorphotheca tragus(Aiton) B.Nord.

Cape marigold

WFO wfo-0000118020 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Dimorphotheca tragus, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2018-09-04 / obs. 24673872
Dimorphotheca tragus, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15452918
Dimorphotheca tragus, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 24673920
Dimorphotheca tragus, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15452921
Dimorphotheca tragus, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 24673992
Dimorphotheca tragus, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15452924
Dimorphotheca tragus, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15452928

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Also published as 12 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.

  • Arnoldia tragus (Aiton) Steud.
  • Calendula flaccida Vent.
  • Calendula tragus Aiton
  • Calendula tragus var. flaccida (Vent.) Pers.
  • Calendula tragus var. tragus
  • Castalis tragus (Ait.) Norl.
  • Castalis tragus var. pinnatifida Norl.
  • Castalis tragus var. tragus
  • Castalis ventenatii Cass.
  • Dimorphotheca aurantiaca DC.
  • Dimorphotheca flaccida (Vent.) Thell.
  • Dimorphotheca scabra DC.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol CATR18. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

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. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.