Tagetes minuta
Tagetes erecta
little marigold, miniature marigold, muster john Henry, southern marigold, stinking roger, stinkweed, wild marigold
African marigold, African or French marigold, American marigold, Aztec marigold, French marigold, French or African marigold, Mexican marigold
blades 80–150+ mm overall, lobes or leaflets 9–17+, narrowly lanceolate to lance-linear, 12–25(–50+) × (2–)4–7+ mm.
blades 30–120(–250+) mm overall, principal lobes/leaflets 9–25, lanceolate to lance-linear, 15–25(–45+) × 3–8(–12+) mm.
1–5+ mm.
30–100(–150+) mm.
7–10+ × 1.5–3 mm.
10–22+ × (3–)5–12+ mm.
1–3;
laminae yellow, ± ovate to elliptic, 1–2 mm.
(3–)5–8+ (to 100+ in “double” cultivars);
laminae yellow to orange, red-brown (sometimes particolored: yellow/red-brown), or white (some cultivars), ± flabellate to oval-quadrate, (2–)12–18(–25+) mm.
3–5;
corollas 3–4 mm.
(10–)50–120+;
corollas 7–12+ mm.
in ± corymbiform clusters.
borne ± singly.
(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.
6–11 mm;
pappi of 0–2, ± subulate-aristate scales 6–12+ mm plus 2–4 distinct or connate, linear-oblong, ± erose scales 2–6+ mm.
= 48.
= 24, 48.
Tagetes minuta
Tagetes erecta
Tagetes minuta is widely cultivated for use as a condiment and has become widely established or persists after plantings.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Cultivars of Tagetes erecta are widely grown in gardens and, commercially, for cut flowers. They often persist after abandoned plantings. Tetraploid plants (2n = 48) with smaller involucres and wholly or partially red-brown corollas included here in T. erecta have been called T. patula by some botanists.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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