Tagetes minuta
Tagetes
little marigold, miniature marigold, muster john Henry, southern marigold, stinking roger, stinkweed, wild marigold
marigold
erect, branched distally or ± throughout.
blades 80–150+ mm overall, lobes or leaflets 9–17+, narrowly lanceolate to lance-linear, 12–25(–50+) × (2–)4–7+ mm.
cauline; mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate); petiolate or sessile;
blades mostly lanceolate to oblanceolate overall, usually 1–3-pinnately lobed or -pinnatisect, ultimate margins toothed or entire, faces glabrous or hairy (oil-glands scattered and/or submarginal).
1–5+ mm.
7–10+ × 1.5–3 mm.
narrowly cylindric or fusiform to turbinate or broadly campanulate, 1–12+ mm diam.
convex to conic, smooth or finely pitted, epaleate.
1–3;
laminae yellow, ± ovate to elliptic, 1–2 mm.
0 or 1–8(–13+) (to 100+ in “double” cultivars), pistillate, fertile (except “double” cultivars);
corollas yellow or orange, red-brown (with or without yellow/orange), or white.
3–5;
corollas 3–4 mm.
6–120+, bisexual, fertile;
corollas greenish yellow to orange, sometimes tipped with red or red-brown, tubes much longer than or about equaling funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate to lance-linear (equal or 2 sinuses deeper than others).
persistent, 3–21+ in 1–2 series (connate to 7/8+ their lengths, usually streaked and/or dotted with oil-glands).
0.
in ± corymbiform clusters.
radiate or discoid, borne singly or in ± corymbiform arrays.
(4.5–)6–7+ mm;
pappi of 1–2 ± subulate scales 2–3+ mm plus 3–5 distinct, ovate to lanceolate scales 0.5–1 mm.
narrowly obpyramidal or fusiform-terete, sometimes weakly flattened, glabrous or hairy;
pappi persistent, of 2–5(–10) dissimilar, distinct or connate scales in ± 1 series: 0–5+ oblong to lanceolate, erose-truncate or laciniate plus 0–2(–5) longer, subulate to aristate.
= 12.
= 48.
Tagetes minuta
Tagetes
Tagetes minuta is widely cultivated for use as a condiment and has become widely established or persists after plantings.
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Species 40+ (4 in the flora).
Some Tagetes species (e.g., T. erecta) produce nematicidal thiophenes in their roots and have been shown to be effective controls for nematodes in diverse crops (cf., http://www.ncagr.com/agronomi/nnote1.htm).
Reports of “Tagetes minima L.” for Pennsylvania (cf. http://plants.usda.gov) are evidently rooted in an error for T. minuta. Report of T. pusilla Kunth (= T. filifolia Lagasca) for Maryland (http://plants.usda.gov) was not verified for this treatment.
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1. Leaf lobes (or simple blades) linear to filiform, 10–25(–35+) × 0.5–1.5 mm | T. micrantha |
1. Leaf lobes lance-elliptic or lanceolate to lance-linear, 12–25(–50+) × (2–)4–8(–12+) mm | → 2 |
2. Perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs | T. lemmonii |
2. Annuals | → 3 |
3. Heads in ± corymbiform clusters; peduncles 1–5+ mm; involucres 7–10+ × 1.5–3 mm | T. minuta |
3. Heads borne ± singly; peduncles 30–100(–150+) mm; involucres 10–22 × (3–)5–12+ mm | T. erecta |
CA
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MD Biodiversity
WildflowerSearch
iNaturalist
USDA Plants Database
OR
Flora NW
PNW Herbaria
