Taxon: Tagetes patula L.

Common names:

• French marigold   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• oeillet d'inde   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• Studentenblume   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• koō-sō   (Source: F Korea ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• mansugug   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• barchatcy otklonennye   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• amapola amarilla   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• copetes   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• copetillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• sammetstagetes   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Food additives: coloring   (fide Culinary Herbs 590. 1997)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed14; Dict Gard)
  
• Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (fide Dye Pl)
  
• Non-vertebrate poisons: plant pest control   (when intercropped with other crops fide Dict Gard)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Tagetes patula 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, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Queretaro

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Eritrea; Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Rwanda; Zaire
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Zambia; Zimbabwe
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
  Malesia: Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic; Germany
  Southeastern Europe: Greece; Romania; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: Spain
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Puerto Rico
  Mesoamerica: Nicaragua

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Norway
  Middle Europe: Austria; Hungary; Slovakia
  Southeastern Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Italy
  Southwestern Europe: Portugal

• also cultivated

• naturalized range uncertain owing to confusion with T. erecta

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).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Breedlove, D. E., ed. 1981–. Flora of Chiapas. [= T. erecta L.].
• Cannon, J. & M. Cannon. 1994. Dye plants and dyeing. The Herbert Press & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [= T. erecta L.].
• Figueiredo, E. & G. F. Smith. 2008. Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jardin botanique national de Belgique. 1967–. Flore du Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi (Flore d'Afrique centrale).
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lasser, T., ed. 1964–. Flora de Venezuela.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 2000. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis, ed. 2.
• 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.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana. [= T. lunulata Ortega?].
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1979–. Flora fanerogámica del Valle de México. [mentions under T. lunulata Ortega].
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes. [= T. erecta L.].
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Small, E. 1997. Culinary herbs.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Turner, B. L. 1996. The comps of Mexico: a systematic account of the family Asteraceae. Volume 6: Tageteae and Anthemideae. Phytologia Mem. 10:53. [= T. erecta L.].
• Turner, B. L. 1996. The comps of Mexico: a systematic account of the family Asteraceae. Volume 6: Tageteae and Anthemideae. Phytologia Mem. 10:55. [= T. lunulata Ort.].
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Villasenor, J. L. 1989. Manual para la identificacion de las Compositae de la Peninsula de Yucatan y Tabasco. 101.
• 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.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Wursten, B. et al. Flora of Zimbabwe (on-line resource).

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Synonyms:

• (=) Tagetes lunulata Ortega
  

Check other web resources for Tagetes patula 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
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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