Taxon: Tagetes minuta L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CA*, HI°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• Aztec marigold   (Source: Ency CNatIn ) – English
  
• dwarf marigold   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• khakibush   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• Mexican marigold   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Muster John Henry   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• southern marigold   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• stinking-Roger   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• wild marigold   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• mexikanische Studentenblume   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• shiozakisō   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• coari-bravo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cravo-bravo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cravo-de-defunto   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cravo-de-urubú   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cravo-do-mato   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• erva-fedorenta   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• rabo-de-foguete   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• vara-de-rojão   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• huacatay   (Source: B. León, p.c.) – Quichua (Peru)
  
• chinchilla enana   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• stinktagetes   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide WorldWeeds 827. 1997)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (in perfumery fide Ency CNatIn; Flower Oils)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Non-vertebrate poisons: plant pest control   (fide Pl Book)
  
• Non-vertebrate poisons: weed control   (when intercropped with other crops fide Dict Gard)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (to humans or livestock fide Kellerman et al.; Lampe & McCann)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Tagetes minuta from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

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

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador - Loja
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Formosa, Jujuy, La Pampa, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tucuman; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Egypt
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Rwanda; Zaire
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Georgia
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal
  Indo-China: Thailand
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: Spain [incl. Baleares]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Sonora
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Israel
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Norway; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Hungary
  Southeastern Europe: Croatia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]

• widely cultivated

References:

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• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
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• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
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Check other web resources for Tagetes minuta L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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 del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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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