calendula

plural calendulas

1. countableuncountableAny plant of the genus Calendula, with yellow or orange flowers, often called marigolds. Used for decoration, as food or spice, and as a trap crop.

   Their dressing room could barely contain all the bouquets they received. Nina gave the largest and brightest, full of zinnias and calendula, to Mother when she came backstage afterward—looking, in her maternal way, even more proud than usual, not just of Nina but of Vera, too.

   2010, Daphne Kalotay, chapter 7, in Russian Winter, London: Arrow Books, The Random House Group Limited, published 2012, →ISBN, book I, pages 197–198