Taxon: Tagetes erecta L.

Common names:

• African marigold   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• American marigold   (Source: Culinary Herbs ) – English
  
• Aztec marigold   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• big marigold   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• marigold   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• saffron marigold   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• wan shou ju   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• tagète rose d'Inde   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• hohe Studentenblume   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Studentenblume   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• senju-giku   (Source: F Korea ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• cheonsugug   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• maravilha   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• barchatcy prjamostojaščie   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• flor de muerto   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• stor tagetes   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Food additives: coloring   (contains lutein fide Dye Pl)
  
• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide Crop Prod Sci Hort 9:134.)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (dried flower meal & extract used as supplement for poultry feed fide Ency CNatIn; Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (fide Culinary Herbs 585. 1997)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Non-vertebrate poisons: plant pest control   (effective against nematodes & slugs when intercropped with other crops fide Dict Gard)
  
• Social: religious/secular   (fide F Guat)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Tagetes erecta from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Durango, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala
  Western South America: Peru - Ucayali

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Zaire
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Gauteng, Mpumalanga
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom - England
  Southeastern Europe: Romania; Slovenia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Niue
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Puerto Rico
  Mesoamerica: Panama
  Northern South America: Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Western South America: Ecuador

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary
  Southeastern Europe: Italy

• widely cultivated

• probably also naturalized elsewhere

References:

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• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
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• Cannon, J. & M. Cannon. 1994. Dye plants and dyeing. The Herbert Press & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Tagetes erecta.

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Check other web resources for Tagetes erecta L.:

• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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