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applied owing to the general resemblance of the 

 flower to that of the Marigold (Calendula officinalis) — 

 a favourite garden flower. 



The Nodding Bur Marigold is found throughout 

 the British Isles, but is very local or rare compared 

 with the Three-lobed Butterbur, in which the flower- 

 head is erect, and the leaf is divided into three 

 segments, whereas here they are entire. The Three- 

 lobed Butterbur has, however, a variety with entire 

 leaves, a characteristic of the Nodding Bur Marigold, 

 but the number of bristles in the pappus, two in the 

 former, three to four in the latter, is a distinctive 

 character. 



The habit is wet ditches, marshes, watery places. 

 It was noted as occurring with the Marsh Cudweed 

 in the wet meadow Rush association characteristic 

 of clayey soils. 



The habit is erect. The plant is stout, leafy, 

 smooth or slightly hairy above, with spreading 

 branches above, succulent, round in section, opposite. 

 The leaves are stalkless, entire, narrowed below, in 

 pairs, united below, oblong to lance-shaped, coarsely 

 toothed. 



The flower-heads are solitary, drooping on terminal 

 flower-stalks, without bracts, brownish-yellow ; the 

 outer phyllaries are leafy, spreading or turned back, 

 the inner shorter, shining, broadly oblong, blunt, 

 with black streaks, yellow edges, and large. The 

 ray florets are short, few, broad, or absent. All are 

 usually tubular. 



