Taxon: Dimorphotheca pluvialis (L.) Moench

Common names:

• Cape rain daisy   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Cape-marigold   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• weather-prophet   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• souci de Cap   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• souci pluvial   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• regenzeigendes Kapörbchen   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• väderspåman   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Hortus 3; Dict Gard)
  
• Materials: potential as lipids   (fide Genet Res Crop Evol 45:441-446. 1998)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: Namibia; South Africa - Northern Cape, Western Cape

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, South Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California

• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Poland

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Bond, P. & P. Goldblatt. 1984. Plants of the Cape Flora, J. S. African Bot. suppl. vol. 13.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Hof, L. & W. Lange. 1998. The influence of insect pollination on yield components in Dimorphotheca pluvialis. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 45:441–446.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Jessop, J. P. & H. R. Toelken, eds. 1986. Flora of South Australia, ed. 4.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Merxmüller, H., ed. 1966–1972. Prodromus einer flora von Sudwestafrika.
• Norlindh, T. 1943. Studies in the Calenduleae I. Monograph of the genera Dimorphotheca, Castalis, Osteospermum, Gibbaria and Chrysanthemoides. 44–56.
• Willis, J. H. 1970–1972. A handbook to plants in Victoria.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Calendula hybrida L.
  
• (≡) Calendula pluvialis L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Dimorphotheca hybrida (L.) DC.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Dimorphotheca pluvialis (L.) Moench:

• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

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• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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