Calendula tripterocarpa, Rupr.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 207

5. C. tripterocarpa Rupr. , Bull. Phys.-Math. Acad. Pétersb. 14: 231 (1856).

Like 4 but usually smaller, with slender, muchbranched, diffuse or decumbent stems; leaves sparsely glandularpubescent, linear-oblong, acute, usually with distinctly repanddentate margins, rarely subentire; capitula 0-5-1 -2 cm in diameter; florets concolorous, yellow or orange, the ligules usually less than 1 cm and not much exceeding the involucral bracts; capitula in fruit with an outer row of broadly 3-winged, toothed or lacerate, unbeaked achenes; beaked achenes usually absent. Cultivated and waste ground. W. Mediterranean region. BI Co Ga Hs It.