Rising from a creeping rhizome, succulent and shiny bright arrow shaped leaves make this plant distinctive. Flowers appear November and December and are large and pale yellow-green with darker green veins. They ripen to interesting spiky dense see heads with up to 80 fruits. Arrow-leaved Marigolds are likely to be found in wet peaty or sandy muddy areas especially by ponds ditches or streams. Apart from the Falklands they occur in Tierra del Fuego and southern South America, also northwards along the Andes to 16°S in Peru.

Sources include: Falklands Conservation, A Field Guide to the Wildlife of The Falkland Islands and South Georgia - Ian J Strange, Plants of the Falkland Islands - Ali Liddle 2007,The Vascular Flora of the Falkland Islands- D. M. Moore, B.Sc., Ph.D, 1968Photographic credits: Robert Maddocks

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