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Arctotheca calendula

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Arctotheca calendula
a plant of the family Asteracea. Good forage plant but may contain toxic amounts of nitrate when it grows profusely after the breaking of a long drought. See also nitrite poisoning. Called also Cryptostemma calendula, capeweed.


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As a ground cover in parkway and driveway strips, Kappel has selected Arctotheca calendula, which creates a blanket of yellow daisies accompanied by whimsically lobed foliage that is green on one side and silver on the other.
Dozens of ground covers can serve as lawn substitutes: Dalea greggii (trailing indigo bush), Cotoneaster salicifolius ``Repens,'' Ceonathus griseus ``horizontalis,'' Arctotheca calendula, cape weed or Coprosma ``verde vista.
 
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