Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Tagetes minuta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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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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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).
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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)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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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