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TAGETES MARIGOLD
Annual [ perennial herb, shrub], generally scented.
Stem: erect.
Leaf: pinnately divided or compound (in CA), opposite throughout or distal alternate, sessile or petioled, dotted with embedded oil glands.
Inflorescence: heads generally radiate, peduncled, 1 or in terminal cyme-like clusters; involucre cylindric to bell-shaped; phyllaries in 1 series, equal, fused, gland-dotted; receptacle flat or rounded, epaleate.
Ray flower: (0)1–many; corolla white to yellow, orange, or brown; style tips long, tapered.
Disk flower: 3–many; corolla yellow to orange or brown.
Fruit: cylindric; pappus of scales, sometimes with 1 or more awns.
± 50 species: North America, South America. (Possibly for the Etruscan god Tages) TOXIC to root-parasite nematodes. [Strother 2006 FNANM 21:235–236] Tagetes erecta L. (heads 1–few, generally large; involucre widely cylindric or bell-shaped, 13–19 mm; ray flowers 8–many) a waif in disturbed places.

Key to Tagetes

1. Heads 1–few, gen large; involucre widely cylindric or bell-shaped, 13–19 mm; ray fls 8–many ..... [T. erecta]

1' Heads many, small; involucre narrowly cylindric, 7–10 mm; ray fls 1–3 ..... T. minuta

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