Israel flowers: Corn Marigold

Chrysanthemum segetum, Glebionis segetum, Corn Marigold,
Yellow cornflower, חרצית השדות


Scientific name:		Chrysanthemum segetum L.
Synonym name:		Glebionis segetum (L.) Fourr.
Common name:		Corn Marigold, Yellow cornflower
Hebrew name:		חרצית השדות
Plant Family:		Compositae / Asteraceae, מורכבים


Life form:		Annual
Stems:		20-60 cm, simple or branched, glaucos, glabrous, decumbent to erect, obscurely sulcate
Leaves:		Alternate, entire, dissected once, dentate or serrate; upper leaves subentire, incise-dentate or lobed
Flowers:		yellow ray and yellow tube flowers
Fruits / pods:		Achenes subterete or obovoid, faintly 5-8-ribbed; achenes of ligulate flowers without an adaxial wing; pappus and oil glands absent
Flowering Period:		April, May
Habitat:		Batha, Phrygana
Distribution:		Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands
Chorotype:		Mediterranean
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

Derivation of the botanical name:

Chrysanthemum (Plinius), Greek chrysos “gold” and anthemon “flower,” referring to the color of the capitula.

segetum, of the corn field(s).
Glebionis, from the Latin gleba, “soil,” and -ionis, “characteristic of,” of uncertain application.
The hebrew name Charzit, חרצית, from Charutz, חרוץ [Ugaritic cheritz; Canaanite: cheritz; Arabic: churtz (gold earring); charutz is the source of the Greek chrysos (Χρύσος/khrysos): also meaning gold.

The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
The standard author abbreviation Fourr. is used to indicate Jules Pierre Fourreau (1844 – 1871), a French botanist.

_{Location: Bene Zion – Haruzim Nature Reserve, שמורת בני ציון}