Taxon: Tagetes lucida Cav.

Common names:

• Mexican mint marigold   (Source: Culinary Herbs 587) – English
  
• Mexican-tarragon   (Source: Culinary Herbs 587) – English
  
• sweet marigold   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• sweet-mace   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• sweet-scent marigold   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• sweet-scent Mexican marigold   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• Texas-tarragon   (Source: Culinary Herbs 587) – English
  
• tagète luisante   (Source: J.-G. Fouché) – French
  
• glänzende Samtblume   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• glänzende Studentenblume   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• anisillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pericón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• perriquillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• glanstagetes   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Culinary Herbs 587-589. 1997)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F Guat; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Non-vertebrate poisons: house pest control   (to repell mosquitos, lice and other insects fide Culinary Herbs 588. 1997)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Tagetes lucida from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

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

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Tabasco, Tlaxcala, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras

• also cultivated

References:

• 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).
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Breedlove, D. E., ed. 1981–. Flora of Chiapas.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Fouché, J.-G. 1999. pers. comm.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 4:429.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Matuda, E. 1958. Las compuestas del estado de México.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes.
• Small, E. 1997. Culinary herbs.
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Turner, B. L. 1996. The comps of Mexico: a systematic account of the family Asteraceae. Volume 6: Tageteae and Anthemideae. Phytologia Mem. 10:55.
• Turner, B. L. 1996–. The comps of Mexico - a systematic account of the family Asteraceae. Phytologia Memoirs.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Villaseñor, J. L. 1989. Manual para la identificacion de las Compositae de la Peninsula de Yucatan y Tabasco. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Techn. Rep. no. 4.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Tagetes lucida.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Tagetes lucida.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Tagetes lucida.

Check other web resources for Tagetes lucida Cav.:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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