Tagetes patula L.

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Tagetes patula

Photo: Bart Wursten
Outside Mutare Boys High

Tagetes patula

Photo: Bart Wursten
Outside Mutare Boys High

Tagetes patula

Photo: Bart Wursten
Outside Mutare Boys High

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Synonyms:
Common names: French marigold (English)
Frequency: Local
Status: Introduced
Description:
Strongly aromatic, erect annual herb up to 60 cm tall. Leaves elliptic in outline, deeply pinnately lobed; lobes strongly serrate. Capitula with broadly ovate ray florets, emarginate at the apex, yellow to deeply orange-red, with or without darker markings.
Notes: It is widely cultivated as a garden ornamental and is known as an occasional naturalised escape. Note: The specimen in the photographs, clearly naturalised along a degraded stretch of road, is a first record for the Eastern Division.
Derivation of specific name: patula: spreading
Habitat: Native to Mexico; naturalised elsewhere.
Altitude range: (metres)
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution:
Zimbabwe distribution: N,E
Growth form(s):
Endemic status:
Red data list status:
Insects associated with this species: Rhodogastria amasis (Food plant)
spilosoma lineata (Larval foodplant)
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Literature:

Beentje, H.J. & Ghazanfar, S.A. (eds.) (2005). Compositae (Part 3) Flora of Tropical East Africa Page 728.

Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 28.

Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 33.

Pope, G.V. (1975). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 6. Helenieae. Kirkia 10(1) Pages 116 - 118. (Includes a picture).


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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Tagetes patula
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Wikipedia: Tagetes patula


Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Tagetes patula.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=160790, retrieved 19 March 2024

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