NameThatPlant.net: Tagetes minuta

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Tagetes minuta FAMILY Asteraceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

To most people, this does not look at all like a marigold. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tagetes minuta FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)

Tagetes minuta

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Tagetes minuta

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Tagetes minuta

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-78-001:

Tagetes minuta FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Tagetes minuta

COMMON NAME:
Muster John Henry, Southern Cone Marigold, Mexican Marigold

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image of Tagetes minuta, Muster John Henry, Southern Cone Marigold, Mexican Marigold

Bruce A. Sorrie bas_tagetes_minuta4

September Moore County NC

Pungent aromatic, glabrous, annual herbs. Stems erect, 0.5-2m tall, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

Bruce A. Sorrie bas_tagetes_minuta4b

September Moore County NC

Involucres cylindric. Flowers yellow, rays 1-3mm long; disc flowers 3-4mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Tagetes minuta FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tagetes minuta FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Tagetes minuta

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Tagetes minuta

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Tagetes minuta

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-78-001:
Tagetes minuta FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Tagetes minuta

4457

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Sandy fields, pecan orchards, sandy roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: South America

Uncommon in Coastal Plain & SC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

map
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LEAVES:
Simple and pinnately dissected, or pinnately compound
Opposite (upper leaves often alternate)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate

Flower heads in ± corymbiform clusters

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Nutlets black
Nutlet

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