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Definition of Cape marigold
1. Noun. Any of several South African plants grown for the profusion of usually yellow daisylike flowers and mounds of aromatic foliage.
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Dimorphotheca, Genus Dimorphotheca
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cape Marigold
Literary usage of Cape marigold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ladies Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"When cultivated in a garden, the seed only requires to be sown in a dry sandy
soil, in March or April. GENUS XXIV. DIMORPHOTHECA, Vaill. THE cape marigold. ..."
2. Garden Flowers: How to Cultivate Them. A Treatise on the Culture of Hardy by Edward Sprague Rand (1866)
"C. pluvialis (rainy); small cape marigold ; half-hardy annual ; i foot; flowers
white, in July; Cape ; 1693. ..."
3. British Farmer's Magazine (1855)
"The seed of the nettle will not germinate at a temperature sufficient for groundsel,
nor the cape marigold in the temperature that suits the nettle, ..."
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